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NetChng S&P/ASX 200
5,738.99 -45.68 NZSX 50
7,058.58 -30.94 DJIA
20,821.76 +11.44 Nikkei
19,283.54 -87.92 NASDAQ
5,845.31 +9.80 FTSE
7,243.70 -27.67 S&P 500
2,367.34 +3.53 Hang Seng
23,965.70 -149.16 SPI 200 Fut
5,703.00 -16.00 STI
3,117.03 -20.54 SSEC
3,253.03 +1.66 ---------------------------------------------------------------- Bonds
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NetChg AU 10 YR Bond
2.701 -0.043 US 10 YR Bond
2.315 +0.000 NZ 10 YR Bond
3.255 +0.000 US 30 YR Bond
2.953 +0.000 ---------------------------------------------------------------- Currencies
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1700GMT AUD US$
0.7670 0.7715 NZD US$
0.7189 0.7228 EUR US$
1.0561 1.0587 Yen US$
112.19 112.78 ---------------------------------------------------------------- Commodities Gold (Lon)
1,253.65
Silver (Lon)
18.35 Gold (NY)
1,256.56
Light Crude
53.99 TRJCRB Index
190.93 -0.70 ---------------------------------------------------------------- Overnight market action with latest New York figures.
EQUITIES
NEW YORK - Wall Street edged higher on Friday, with the Dow extending its streak of record-setting gains to 11 days, as increases in utilities and other safety plays outweighed declines in financials.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average .DJI rose 11.44 points, or 0.05 percent, to end at 20,821.76, the S&P 500 .SPX gained 3.53 points, or 0.15 percent, to 2,367.34 and the Nasdaq Composite .IXIC added 9.80 points, or 0.17 percent, to 5,845.31.
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LONDON - European shares dropped on Friday with banks and miners falling as a raft of disappointing earnings updates and political worries dented sentiment.
The STOXX 600 .STOXX was down 0.8 percent at its close, erasing gains made earlier in the week and snapping a two-week winning streak. This was the index's lowest closing level in three weeks.
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TOKYO - Japanese stocks fell on Friday, with investors staying on the sidelines as a lack of clarity over U.S. economic policies under President Donald Trump and political uncertainty in Europe weighed on sentiment.
The Nikkei 225
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SYDNEY - Australian shares are likely to open softer on Monday following mixed lead from Wall Street.
Local share price index futures YAPcm1 slipped 0.3 percent overnight to sit at 5,703 points, a 36-point discount to the underlying S&P/ASX200 index .AXJO . The benchmark ended down 0.8 percent at 5,739 on Friday.
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FOREIGN EXCHANGE
NEW YORK -
The U.S. dollar fell to a more than two-week low against the Japanese yen on Friday as investors doubted the likelihood of swift tax reform and a quick spending boost from U.S. President Donald Trump's administration.
The euro's modest drop helped put the dollar index .DXY , which measures the greenback against a basket of six major currencies, on course for its third straight weekly gain. The gain was small at just 0.2 percent, with the index last up only slightly at 101.110 after recovering from a one-week low of 100.660 earlier.
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TREASURIES
NEW YORK - U.S. benchmark 10-year Treasury note yields dropped to five-week lows on Friday, pressured by declines in Europe amid persistent political uncertainty and a soft batch of U.S. data that suggested a more mixed outlook for the world's largest economy.
In Europe, German two-year yields DE10YT=TWEB fell to record lows, while France's 10-year bond yield FR10YT=TWEB hit a one-month low at 0.94 percent in a flight to safety.
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COMMODITIES
GOLD
NEW YORK - Gold reached its highest in 3-1/2 months on Friday as the dollar fell to a one-week low after the new U.S. Treasury chief poured cold water on the "Trumpflation trade" that had boosted the greenback this year.
Spot gold XAU= was up 0.6 percent at $1,256.75 an ounce by 2:26 p.m. EST (1926 GMT), having touched its highest since Nov. 11 at $1,260.10 earlier, zeroing in on the 200-day moving average. It was on track to finish the week higher for the fourth straight week.
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BASE METALS
LONDON - Copper clawed back some of the previous session's hefty losses on Friday as supply disruptions in Chile and Indonesia lent support, but still posted a second straight weekly drop as concerns over the demand outlook weighed.
Three-month copper on the London Metal Exchange CMCU3 closed at $5,928 a tonne, up 1.2 percent from the previous day but still half a percent lower on the week.
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OIL
NEW YORK - Oil prices fell about 1 percent on Friday as worries about rising U.S. supplies outweighed OPEC pledges to boost compliance with output curbs.
Brent crude oil LCOc1 settled down 59 cents, or 1.04 percent, at $55.99 a barrel, while U.S. West Texas Intermediate CLc1 ended the session 46 cents lower at $53.99 a barrel.
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