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180.34 -1.25 ---------------------------------------------------------------- Overnight market action with latest New York figures.
EQUITIES
NEW YORK - Wall Street edged higher on Tuesday as gains for the tech and industrial sectors countered weakness in auto and energy stocks and investors digested a heavy day of earnings reports.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average .DJI rose 36.43 points, or 0.17 percent, to 20,949.89, the S&P 500 .SPX gained 2.83 points, or 0.12 percent, to 2,391.16 and the Nasdaq Composite .IXIC added 3.76 points, or 0.06 percent, to 6,095.37.
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LONDON - Britain's top share index rose on Tuesday, with well-received results from heavyweight BP BP.L helping to underpin gains in a positive start to the first trading day of the month.
The blue chip FTSE 100 .FTSE index ended up 0.6 percent at 7,250.05 points, in line with a broadly positive European market.
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TOKYO - Japan's Nikkei share average rose to six-week highs on Tuesday in a holiday-shortened week, getting a lift from robust earnings and gains on Wall Street.
The Nikkei .N225 finished 0.7 percent higher at 19,445.70, its highest close since March 21.
Tokyo markets will be closed for three days from Wednesday for a string of holidays known as Golden Week.
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SYDNEY - Australian shares are set to open lower on Wednesday, with heavyweight BHP Billiton (LON:BLT) and its fellow oil and gas producers under pressure from sliding oil prices.
Local share price index futures YAPcm1 slipped 4 points to 5,930, a 20.4-point discount to the underlying S&P/ASX 200 .AXJO close. The benchmark index edged down 0.1 percent on Tuesday.
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FOREIGN EXCHANGE
NEW YORK - The U.S. dollar eased off a six-week high against the yen and fell against the euro after weak U.S. April auto sales added to worries that the Federal Reserve may eventually take a more dovish-than-expected view on interest rate increases over the remainder of the year.
The dollar was last just 0.1 percent higher against the yen at 111.97 yen as risk appetite faded.
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TREASURIES
NEW YORK - U.S. Treasury prices gained on Tuesday after weak auto sales raised concerns about the strength of consumer spending, and as investors awaited the conclusion of the Federal Reserve's two-day meeting on Wednesday.
Benchmark 10-year notes US10YT=RR gained 9/32 in price to yield 2.30 percent, down from 2.33 percent late on Monday.
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COMMODITIES
GOLD
NEW YORK/LONDON - Gold prices fell to a three-week low on Tuesday, as demand for riskier assets drove stocks higher and the dollar hit a six-week peak against the yen.
Spot gold XAU= was down 0.1 percent at $1,255.43 an ounce by 2:28 p.m. EDT (1828 GMT), having earlier hit $1,251.37, the lowest since April 10 and around the 200-day moving average.
U.S. gold futures GCcv1 settled up 0.1 percent.
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BASE METALS
LONDON - Copper prices hit a three-week high on Tuesday due to concerns about supply disruptions in Indonesia, but caution over slowing demand in top consumer China capped gains.
Benchmark copper CMCU3 on the London Metal Exchange, untraded in the rings, ended up 1.2 percent at $5,735.50 a tonne from an earlier $5,820 a tonne, its highest since April 10.
For a full report, double click on MET/L
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OIL
NEW YORK - Brent crude oil prices fell on Tuesday to its lowest level in over five months, erasing all of the gains since OPEC agreed to cut production at the end of November, after breaking through a key technical support level.
Brent LCOc1 futures fell $1.06, or 2.1 percent, to settle at $50.46 a barrel, the lowest close since Nov. 29 - the day before OPEC agreed to cut supply.
U.S. West Texas Intermediate crude CLc1 fell $1.18, or 2.4 percent, to $47.66 a barrel, its lowest close since March 21.
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