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NetChng S&P/ASX 200
5,112.14 +90.51 NZSX 50
5,585.43 -7.93 DJIA
16,207.76 -76.94 Nikkei
17,722.42 +334.27 NASDAQ
4,598.09 -22.08 FTSE
6,072.47 +10.86 S&P 500
1,915.38 -4.65 Hang Seng
20,846.30 +289.70 SPI 200 Fut
5,052.00 -29.00 STI
2,801.85 +10.96 SSEC
3,053.32 +15.19 ---------------------------------------------------------------- Bonds
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NetChg AU 10 YR Bond
2.599 -0.015 US 10 YR Bond
2.042 -0.018 NZ 10 YR Bond
3.320 +0.000 US 30 YR Bond
2.852 -0.026 --------------------------------------------------------------- Currencies
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1700GMT AUD US$
0.7027 0.7063 NZD US$
0.6404 0.6406 EUR US$
1.1189 1.1141 Yen US$
119.90 120.12 ---------------------------------------------------------------- Commodities Gold (Lon)
1,119.00
Silver (Lon)
14.48 Gold (NY)
1,114.60
Light Crude
44.74 TRJCRB Index
192.52 -1.25 ---------------------------------------------------------------- Overnight market action with latest New York figures.
EQUITIES
NEW YORK - Wall Street started the last quarter of the year in the red on Thursday as investors parsed mixed U.S. data and its implication for interest rates, and a rally in oil prices faded.
At 12:43 ET (1643 GMT), the Dow Jones industrial average .DJI was down 159.87 points, or 0.98 percent, at 16,124.83, the S&P 500 .SPX was down 13.81 points, or 0.72 percent, at 1,906.22 and the Nasdaq composite .IXIC was down 39.64 points, or 0.86 percent, at 4,580.53.
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LONDON - UK shares outperformed their European counterparts on Thursday as mining and oil and gas companies rose, although weakness on Wall Street trimmed the gains. The blue-chip FTSE 100 index .FTSE closed just 10.86 points higher, up 0.2 percent at 6,072.47 points, having been up by more than 1 percent for most of the session.
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TOKYO - Japanese stocks rose on Thursday, taking comfort from surveys showing contractions in China's manufacturing activity may have bottomed out and on pockets of strength among Japanese firms despite the crunch felt by weak external demand.
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FOREIGN EXCHANGE
NEW YORK - The dollar drifted lower on Thursday as traders puzzled over data sending contrary messages about the U.S. economy and prospects for a 2015 interest rate hike by the Federal Reserve.
The dollar index .DXY dipped after the ISM report and was last off 0.35 percent, just above its low of the day, and within a tight trading range likely to continue until Friday's employment data are published.
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TREASURIES
NEW YORK - U.S. Treasury debt prices rose on Thursday with benchmark yields falling to their lowest in over five weeks as a further deceleration in U.S. manufacturing stoked investor worries in advance of Friday's U.S. payrolls report.
Ten-year Treasuries notes US10YT=RR were up 8/32 in price to yield 2.031 percent, down 3 basis points from late on Wednesday. Ten-year yield earlier hit 2.009 percent which was its lowest level since Aug. 25.
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COMMODITIES
GOLD
NEW YORK - Gold recovered from two-week lows on Thursday as the dollar lost ground to the euro, but uncertainty ahead of Friday's U.S. nonfarm payroll figures held prices in a narrow range.
Spot gold XAU= was up 0.2 percent at $1,117.11 an ounce at 1425 GMT, after dropping to $1,110.75, its lowest since Sept. 16. U.S. gold futures GCv1 for December delivery were up $1.30 an ounce at $1,116.50.
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BASE METALS
LONDON - Copper slipped on Thursday as optimism faded about stronger demand prospects in top consumer China, but some analysts expect prices to soon test the two-week highs seen earlier as lower supply leads to a more balanced market. Benchmark copper CMCU3 on the London Metal Exchange ended down 1.2 percent at $5,097 a tonne from an earlier $5,230, the highest since Sept. 22.
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OIL
NEW YORK - Oil prices fell as much as 1 percent on Thursday as the government's storm monitor altered forecasts for the path of the latest U.S. hurricane, snuffing out an early rally that was prompted by fears of storm damage U.S. East Coast oil installations.
Brent LCOc1 , the global benchmark for oil, was down 55 cents, or 1.1 percent, at $47.82 a barrel by 12:22 p.m. EDT (1622 GMT) after hitting a one-week high at $49.84. U.S. crude CLc1 was down 15 cents, or 0.3 percent, at $44.94. At its session high, it had been up more than $2 or 4 percent.
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