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7,007.5. +30.30 DJIA
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15,276.24 -102.75 NASDAQ
4,869.49 +10.32 FTSE
6,533.79 +70.20 S&P 500
2,093.90 -5.83 Hang Seng
20,706.92 +211.63 SPI 200 Fut
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0.7220 0.7190 EUR US$
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100.72 100.71 ---------------------------------------------------------------- Commodities Gold (Lon)
1,356.70
Silver (Lon)
19.76 Gold (NY)
1,363.51
Light Crude
45.18 TRJCRB Index
185.70 -4.25 --------------------------------------------------------------- Overnight market action with latest New York figures.
EQUITIES
NEW YORK - Wall Street stocks dipped on Thursday as a drop in oil prices dragged down energy shares, while utilities reversed recent gains.
At 2:45 p.m. ET, the Dow Jones industrial average .DJI was down 97.76 points, or 0.55 percent, to 17,820.86, the S&P 500 .SPX had lost 9.87 points, or 0.47 percent, to 2,089.86 and the Nasdaq Composite .IXIC had dropped 1.44 points, or 0.03 percent, to 4,857.73.
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LONDON - Britain's top share index rebounded on Thursday, with Associated British Foods (LON:ABF) ABF.Lrecording its biggest one-day gain in 16 years after its brighter outlook on earnings. Gains by crude oil helped energy stocks.
Associated British Foods surged 9.5percent, the biggest gain in the blue-chip FTSE 100 index .FTSE , after the company upgraded its annual earnings outlook to a profit, reversing a previous forecast for a marginal decline.
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TOKYO - Japan's Nikkei share average fell for the third straight session on Thursday, as an undercurrent of Brexit fears kept risk asset markets nervous.
The Nikkei .N225 lost 0.7 percent to 15,276.24, hurt by renewed strength in the yen as Brexit fears have resurfaced.
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FOREIGN EXCHANGE
NEW YORK - Sterling rebounded on Thursday after falling two straight days, as better-than-expected UK factory data and a modest revival in risk appetite with the rise in some global stocks encouraged investors to book profits on trades betting against the UK currency.
In late morning trading, sterling was up 0.3 percent against the dollar at $1.2956 GBP=D4 , having skidded to a 31-year low of $1.2798 on Wednesday. It has been down more than 14 percent since the Brexit vote.
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TREASURIES
NEW YORK - U.S. Treasury yields rose on Thursday, with benchmark and long-dated yields up from record lows hit Wednesday, after stronger-than-expected U.S. jobs data led traders to trim bets on safe-haven Treasuries one day ahead of a key June employment report.
U.S. 30-year Treasuries US30YT=RR were last down 10/32 in price to yield 2.165 percent after hitting a record low of 2.098 percent on Wednesday. Benchmark 10-year Treasuries US10YT=RR were last down 10/32 in price to yield 1.420 percent after touching a record low of 1.321 percent Wednesday.
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COMMODITIES
GOLD
NEW YORK - Gold slips as U.S. jobs data supports the dollar, ending a six-day rally that pushed the precious metal to more than a two-year high on concerns about Britain's vote to leave the European Union.
Spot gold XAU= was off 0.2 pct at $1,360.26 an ounce by 2:41 p.m. EDT (1841 GMT), down from Wednesday's peak of $1,374.91, the highest since March 2014.
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BASE METALS
LONDON - Copper slid to the lowest in over a week on Thursday as the dollar strengthened, oil prices fell and investors continued to be unsettled about the aftermath of the UK's vote to leave the European Union.
Benchmark copper CMCU3 on the London Metal Exchange closed down 1.4 percent at $4,685 a tonne, the weakest since June 27, extending losses of 1.4 percent in the previous session.
For a full report, double click on MET/L
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OIL
NEW YORK - Oil prices fell 5 percent to two-month lows on Thursday after the U.S. government reported a weekly crude draw within analysts' forecasts, disappointing market bulls who had expected larger declines.
Brent crude futures LCOc1 were down $2.36, or 4.8 percent, at $46.44 per barrel by 1:10 p.m. EDT (1710 GMT). The session low was $46.27, the lowest for Brent since May 11.
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