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Overnight market action with latest New York figures.
EQUITIES
NEW YORK - U.S. stocks rallied more than 1 percent on Tuesday after data showed healthy growth in consumer spending but did little to remove uncertainty about whether the Federal Reserve will end seven years of near-zero interest rates when it meets this week.
Around 3:20 p.m. ET (1920 GMT), the Dow Jones industrial average DJI rose 256.71 points, or 1.57 percent, to 16,627.67, the S&P 500 .SPX gained 28.08 points, or 1.44 percent, to 1,981.11 and the Nasdaq Composite .IXIC added 60.60 points, or 1.26 percent, to 4,866.36.
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LONDON - Britain's top equity index turned higher in thin trade on Tuesday, as a strong start to trade on Wall Street helped lift mining stocks off their lows, including Glencore (LONDON:GLEN), which hit another all-time trough early in the day. The blue-chip FTSE 100 index .FTSE closed up 0.9 percent higher at 6,137.60 points, turning higher as Wall Street gained following a climb in retail sales.
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TOKYO - The Nikkei share average rose on Tuesday as the Bank of Japan's two-day policy meeting concluded without any surprise decisions and food companies rallied on reports of a merger between two major meat processors.
The Nikkei share average .N225 ended up 0.3 percent at 18,026.48.
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SYDNEY - Australian shares are set to bounce on Wednesday, tracking a positive lead from Wall Street after gains in consumer spending.
The heavyweight natural resources sector is expected to underpin the index after global miner BHP Billiton's U.S. ADRs BHP.N jumped 2.1 percent.
Local share price index futures YAPcm1 rose 1.2 percent to 5,064.00, a 45.6 point premium to the close of the underlying S&P/ASX200 index on Tuesday. The benchmark fell 1.5 percent in the last session.
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FOREIGN EXCHANGE
NEW YORK - The dollar rose on Tuesday, as Wall Street rallied on solid retail sales data that supported the view of a steady U.S. economic expansion and which could tip the Federal Reserve towards raising interest rates later this week.
The dollar index .DXY rose 0.4 percent to 95.605, above the 94.913 level set on Monday which was its lowest since late August. The greenback was up 0.2 percent versus the yen at 120.44 yen JPY= , while the euro fell 0.4 percent to $1.1271 EUR= .
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TREASURIES
NEW YORK - U.S. Treasuries prices slipped on Tuesday after upwardly revised U.S. retail sales data for July and greater risk appetite reduced demand for safe-haven Treasuries, though trading remained thin ahead of a Federal Reserve policy announcement on Thursday.
U.S. 30-year Treasury bonds US30YT=RR were last down 29/32 in price to yield 2.99 percent, from a yield of 2.95 percent late Monday.
U.S. 30-year yields earlier hit a nearly one-week high of about 3 percent.
Benchmark 10-year Treasury notes US10YT=RR were last down 9/32 in price to yield 2.21 percent, from a yield of 2.18 percent late Monday.
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COMMODITIES
GOLD
NEW YORK/LONDON - Gold eased back toward last week's one-month low on Tuesday as U.S. retail sales data lifted the dollar index, and as caution ahead of this week's Federal Reserve announcement on interest rates kept buyers on the sidelines.
Spot gold XAU= was down 0.5 percent at $1,103.20 an ounce at 2:55 p.m. EDT (1855 GMT), near Friday's one-month low of $1,098.35. U.S. gold futures GCv1 for December delivery settled down 0.5 percent at $1,102.60 an ounce.
Spot silver XAG= was down 0.6 percent at $14.32 an ounce.
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BASE METALS
LONDON - Copper prices slid on Monday along with Chinese equities as economic data from China reinforced worries about demand growth in the world's top consumer of industrial metals.
Benchmark copper CMCU3 on the London Metal Exchange fell as much as 1.5 percent to $5,287 a tonne. The metal, used in power and construction ended down at $5,310 from Friday's close at $5,370.
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OIL
NEW YORK - U.S. crude oil rose around 2 percent on Tuesday, buoyed by gains on Wall Street while Brent was steady to soft ahead of the front-month contract's expiry, narrowing the trans-Atlantic spread to its lowest in eight months.
U.S. crude CLc1, was up 70 cents, or 1.6 percent, at $44.70 a barrel by 1:05 p.m. EDT (1705 GMT). It rose more than $1 at the session high, hitting $45.03.
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