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100.89 102.29 ---------------------------------------------------------------- Commodities Gold (Lon)
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EQUITIES
NEW YORK - Wall Street stocks fell on Tuesday, with each of the major indexes notching their worst day in about a month as economic data and weaker-than-expected auto sales spurred concerns about growth.
The Dow Jones industrial average .DJI fell 90.74 points, or 0.49 percent, to 18,313.77, the S&P 500 .SPX lost 13.81 points, or 0.64 percent, to 2,157.03 and the Nasdaq Composite .IXIC dropped 46.46 points, or 0.9 percent, to 5,137.73.
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LONDON - Britain's benchmark share index fell to a two-week low on Tuesday as the heavily weighted banking and energy sectors dropped, although motor insurer Direct Line DLGD.L jumped after results.
The blue-chip FTSE 100 index .FTSE ended down 0.7 percent at 6,645.4 points, its lowest level since mid-July, as the bank sector extended losses after the results of Europe-wide stress tests. Britain's banking index .FTNMX8350 fell 1.5 percent.
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SYDNEY - Australian shares are set to open lower on Wednesday, extending losses into a second session, as a weak Wall Street weighed on the index.
Local share price index futures YAPcm1 fell 0.6 percent to 5,465, but that was a 75.5-point discount to the underlying S&P/ASX 200 index .AXJO close. The benchmark hit a near one-year high on Monday.
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TOKYO - Japan's Nikkei share average fell for the first time in three days on Tuesday as sliding oil prices and a firm yen dented investors' confidence.
The Nikkei .N225 closed down 1.5 percent at 16,391.45 points.
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FOREIGN EXCHANGE
NEW YORK - The dollar dropped to a six-week low against a basket of currencies on Tuesday, pressured by expectations the Federal Reserve would delay raising interest rates after recent soft U.S. economic data.
In late trading, the dollar index .DXY fell 0.7 percent to 95.048, after earlier sliding to 95.0031, the lowest level since June 24.
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TREASURIES
NEW YORK - U.S. Treasury yields rose on Tuesday after Japan unveiled fiscal stimulus measures, dampening demand for U.S. government debt and sending long-dated U.S. yields to their highest levels in more than a week.
U.S. 30-year yields US30YT=RR rose the most among U.S. Treasuries and hit 2.332 percent, their highest since July 21, before pulling back. U.S. 30-year yields were last at 2.300 percent, compared to 2.237 percent late Monday.
Benchmark 10-year yields US10YT=RR hit a six-day high of 1.573 percent, but were last at 1.544 percent.
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COMMODITIES
GOLD
NEW YORK - Gold rose to a four-week high on Tuesday as European and U.S. shares fell and the dollar hit its lowest in over a month after last week's soft U.S. growth data dented expectations for a near-term interest rate hike.
Spot gold XAU= was up 0.9 percent at $1,365.09 an ounce by 2:44 p.m. EDT (1844 GMT), after rising to $1,367.33, the highest since July 11.
U.S. gold futures GCv1 for December delivery settled up 1 percent at $1,372.60.
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BASE METALS
LONDON - Copper prices rose on Tuesday as the lower dollar triggered a flurry of buying, but surveys of manufacturers around the world indicating slow activity dampened sentiment and limited gains.
Benchmark copper CMCU3 on the London Metal Exchange was untraded at the close, but bid up 0.2 percent at $4,890 a tonne. The metal used in power and construction earlier hit $4,959, near the one-week high of $4,965 seen on Monday.
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OIL
NEW YORK - U.S. crude oil fell on Tuesday to end below $40 a barrel for the first time since April as persistent worries of both a crude and refined fuel glut and a slide in U.S. equities offset an early boost from a weak dollar.
UU.S. West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude CLc1 settled down 55 cents, or 1.4 percent, at $39.51 a barrel, after earlier rallying to $40.91. On Monday, it slid to an intraday session low below $40 for the first time since April.
Brent crude LCOc1 fell 34 cents, or 0.8 percent, to settle at $41.80, after touching a session high at $43.18.
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