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6,170.22 +20.51 DJIA
16,466.30 +396.66 Nikkei
17,518.30 +476.85 NASDAQ
4,613.95 +107.28 FTSE
6,083.79 +152.01 S&P 500
1,940.24 +46.88 Hang Seng
19,683.11 +487.28 SPI 200 Fut
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2,629.11 +66.66 SSEC
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121.22 120.65 ---------------------------------------------------------------- Commodities Gold (Lon)
1,111.80
Silver (Lon)
14.26 Gold (NY)
1,117.64
Light Crude
33.62 TRJCRB Index
166.75 +1.53 ---------------------------------------------------------------- Overnight market action with latest New York figures.
EQUITIES
NEW YORK - Wall Street surged over 2 percent on Friday after the Bank of Japan unexpectedly cut interest rates and Microsoft (O:MSFT) led a major rally in technology shares, repairing some of the damage to the S&P 500's worst January since 2009.
The Dow Jones industrial average .DJI ended 2.47 percent higher at 16,466.30 while the S&P 500 .SPX gained 46.88 points or 2.48 percent higher to end at 1,940.24. The Nasdaq Composite .IXIC surged 2.38 percent to 4,613.95.
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LONDON - Britain's benchmark equity index rose on Friday, cheered by the Bank of Japan's decision to adopt negative interest rates to boost its economy.
The blue-chip FTSE 100 index .FTSE , which had fallen around 1 percent on Thursday, closed 2.6 percent higher at 6,083.79 points.
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SYDNEY - Australian stocks are set to open up nearly 1 percent on Monday, drawing support from strong gains on Wall Street.
Local share price index futures YAPcm1 climbed 0.7 percent to 5,002 to sit at a 2.4-point discount to the underlying S&P/ASX 200 index .AXJO . The benchmark rose 0.6 percent on Friday.
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TOKYO - Japan's Nikkei share average soared to more than a two-week high on Friday after the Bank Of Japan unexpectedly eased monetary policy further by introducing a negative interest rate policy.
The Nikkei .N225 ended 2.8 percent higher to 17,518.30, the highest closing level since Jan. 13. Earlier, it dipped into negative territory at one point as investors digested the implications of the new policy for the banking sector.
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FOREIGN EXCHANGE
NEW YORK - The dollar rose sharply on Friday, hitting a six-week high versus the yen, after the Bank of Japan took one of its main interest rates into negative territory and U.S. gross domestic product data largely matched economists' expectations.
The dollar index .DXY, which tracks the dollar against six major world currencies, rose 1.1 percent to 99.586, its highest since Dec. 3.
The greenback booked gains of more than 1 percent against the euro EUR= , British pound GBP= , and Swiss franc CHF= after the GDP figures were released, moving the dollar into positive territory on the month against each currency.
The dollar rose 2.4 percent against the yen JPY= after the release of the data, reaching its highest since Dec. 18. It last traded up 1.9 percent at 121.05.
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TREASURIES
NEW YORK - U.S. Treasury yields fell to four-month lows on Friday after the Bank of Japan surprised investors by introducing negative interest rates in a further effort to stimulate the country's flagging economy.
Benchmark 10-year notes US10YT=RR were last up 17/32 in price to yield 1.93 percent, after earlier falling to 1.91 percent, the lowest level since Oct. 2.
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COMMODITIES
GOLD
NEW YORK - Gold edged higher on Friday after U.S. data showed economic growth braked sharply in the fourth quarter and the price of the precious metal was on track for its biggest monthly rise in a year after global economic headwinds hit riskier assets.
Spot gold XAU= was up 0.2 percent at $1,116.46 an ounce at 2:51 p.m. EST (1951 GMT), while U.S. gold for February delivery GCcv1 settled up 0.1 percent at $1,116.40 an ounce.
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BASE METALS
LONDON - Copper rose on Friday as traders and funds expecting tighter supplies reversed their bets on lower prices, although uncertainty about Chinese demand is expected to cap gains ahead of the Lunar New Year holiday.
Benchmark copper CMCU3 on the London Metal Exchange ended up 0.7 percent at $4,561 a tonne, its second consecutive week of gains. The metal is still down 3 percent for the year, however.
For a full report, double click on MET/L
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OIL
NEW YORK - Oil prices rose on Friday, rebounding more than 25 percent from 12-year lows hit last week and cutting losses for the month, on prospects of a deal between major exporters to cut production and curb one of the biggest supply gluts in history.
Brent March futures LCOc1 , which expired on Friday, closed at $34.74 a barrel, 85 cents or 2.5 percent higher. On Jan. 20, it hit $27.10, its lowest since November 2003.
U.S. crude CLc1 settled up 40 cents or 1.2 percent, at$33.62 per barrel, having hit a high of $34.40 in the session.
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