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Overnight market action with latest New York figures.
EQUITIES
NEW YORK - U.S. stocks looked set to snap a two-day losing streak on Thursday after Citigroup (N:C) led a recovery in financial stocks and investors absorbed mixed economic data.
At 1611 GMT, the Dow Jones industrial average .DJI was up 43.82 points, or 0.26 percent, at 16,968.57, the S&P 500 .SPX was up 6.76 points, or 0.34 percent, at 2,001 and the Nasdaq composite index .IXIC was up 20.50 points, or 0.43 percent, at 4,803.35.
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LONDON - Britain's top equity index closed higher on Thursday, with companies like ARM Holdings (L:ARM) and Hargreaves Lansdown (L:HRGV) gaining as their outlooks improved, although luxury-goods group Burberry slumped after its sales figures missed forecasts.
The blue-chip FTSE 100 index .FTSE , which had fallen for the last three sessions, finished 1.1 percent higher at 6,338.67 points.
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TOKYO - Japanese stocks rose on Thursday as investors who wanted to limit risk bought into defensive shares.
The Nikkei share average .N225 gained 1.2 percent to close at 18,096.90.
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FOREIGN EXCHANGE
NEW YORK - The dollar rose against a basket of currencies on Thursday as underlying domestic inflation strengthened more than expected in September, reviving some expectations the Federal Reserve would raise interest rates this year.
The dollar index .DXY was last up 0.5 percent at 94.361, recovering from a seven-week low at 93.806. The euro was down 0.7 percent on the day at $1.1393 EUR= , retreating from an earlier peak of $1.1495, its strongest since Aug. 26.
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TREASURIES
NEW YORK - U.S. Treasuries yields rose slightly on Thursday after data showed a measure of U.S. consumer prices that strips out food and energy costs rose more than expected in September, marginally supporting views of a 2015 Federal Reserve rate hike.
Benchmark 10-year Treasury notes US10YT=RR were last down 10/32 to yield 2.02 percent, from a yield of 1.98 percent late Wednesday.
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COMMODITIES
GOLD
NEW YORK - Gold retreated from the previous session's 3-1/2 month high on Thursday after a stronger than expected reading of U.S. inflation drove the dollar higher versus the euro.
Spot gold XAU= was down 0.4 percent at $1,181.01 an ounce at 1341 GMT, while U.S. gold futures GCv1 for December delivery were up $1.50 an ounce at $1,181.30.
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BASE METALS
LONDON - Copper rose on Thursday on hopes for further production cuts from miners, but a rebound in the dollar kept a lid on gains.
Benchmark copper on the London Metal Exchange CMCU3 closed 0.2 percent higher at $5,308 a tonne, after climbing near a four-week high earlier in the session.
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OIL
NEW YORK - Oil prices fell more than 1 percent on Thursday, down for the fourth day as the U.S. government reported a larger-than-expected crude stockpile build.
Brent's most-actively traded contract, December LCOc2 , fell by 25 cents, or half a percent, to $49.44. Brent's November contract LCOc1 , which expires at Thursday's settlement to be replaced as front-month by the December contract, fell by 60 cents to $48.55.
U.S. crude's front-month contract, November CLc1 , was down 64 cents, or 1.3 percent, at $46 a barrel by 1626 GMT.
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