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191.22 -0.21 ---------------------------------------------------------------- Overnight market action with latest New York figures.
EQUITIES
NEW YORK - U.S. stocks reduced their gains on Monday after several people were killed by a truck driven into a Christmas market in Germany.
At 3:33 pm (2033 GMT), the Dow Jones industrial average .DJI was up 0.16 percent to 19,876.1 points and the S&P 500 .SPX had gained 0.12 percent to 2,260.77. The Nasdaq Composite .IXIC added 0.26 percent to 5,451.27. The Dow Jones industrial average is less than 1 percent away from 20,000, a level it has never breached.
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LONDON - European shares retreated from 11-month highs on Monday with Italy's Monte dei Paschi BMPS.MI leading banks lower on worries over a cash call, and Danone DANO.PA hit after the world's biggest yoghurt maker warned about sales growth.
The STOXX 600 .STOXX was down 0.1 percent at its close, pulling back after ending at its highest level since Jan. 5 on Friday. Traders said volumes could remain low and trading become choppy as the year-end holiday season approached.
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TOKYO - Japanese stocks edged down in thin trade on Monday, snapping a nine-day rally as a pullback on Wall Street prompted investors to cash in on outperformers such as exporters and banks.
The Nikkei share average .N225 shed 0.1 percent to 19,391.60 after soaring 6.2 percent in the past nine days, mainly supported by a weak yen as the dollar rose broadly on expectations of a faster pace of U.S. interest rate hikes next year.
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SYDNEY - Australian shares are seen falling at Tuesday's open, as recently surging commodity prices - particularly oil and iron ore - take a breather.
Local share price futures fell 0.2 percent overnight to 5,516 points, a 46.1 point discount to the underlying S&P/ASX 200 index .AXJO . The benchmark closed 0.53 percent higher on Monday.
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FOREIGN EXCHANGE
NEW YORK - The dollar clawed back into positive territory against a basket of currencies on Monday after Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen said the U.S. labor market has improved to its strongest in nearly a decade, suggesting wage growth is picking up.
The dollar index .DXY , which measures the greenback's value versus the euro, yen and four other currencies, was up 0.05 percent at 103.00.
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TREASURIES
NEW YORK - U.S. Treasury prices rose on Monday as investors were seen covering short positions heading into year-end, but gave up some gains after Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen gave an upbeat view of the jobs market.
Benchmark 10-year notes US10YT=RR were last up 12/32 in price to yield 2.55 percent, after falling as low as 2.53 percent on news of the shooting in Turkey. The yields are down from 2.60 percent late on Friday.
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COMMODITIES
GOLD
NEW YORK - Gold prices edged higher on Monday as geopolitical tensions offset expectations of tighter U.S. monetary policy and a stronger U.S. dollar.
Spot gold XAU= was up 0.31 pct at $1,137.55 an ounce by 2:40 p.m. EST (1940 GMT), even as the dollar reversed earlier losses. It hit $1,122.35, its weakest since Feb. 2, on Thursday under pressure from a stronger dollar after hawkish rate forecasts from the Federal Reserve.
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BASE METALS
LONDON - The price of copper slid as much as 3 percent to a four-week low on Monday as inventories showed their biggest one-day rise in 15 years, while lead and zinc tumbled more than 5 percent on bets that earlier gains had become overstretched.
Three-month copper on the LME CMCU3 closed down 2.5 percent at $5,495 a tonne, after falling to as low as $5,459. Prices hit a 17-month peak of $6,045.50 a tonne last month, but have since succumbed to selling.
For a full report, double click on MET/L
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OIL
NEW YORK - Oil prices were little changed on Monday in quiet pre-Christmas trade as the market waited to see whether U.S. production from shale fields would grow enough to offset planned output cuts by OPEC, Russia and other producers next year.
Brent LCOc1 futures for February delivery lost 29 cents or, 0.5 percent, to settle at $54.92 a barrel, while U.S. West Texas Intermediate crude CLc1 for January rose 22 cents, or 0.4 percent, to settle at $52.12 per barrel on its second to last day as the front month.
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