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Overnight market action with latest New York figures.
EQUITIES
NEW YORK - U.S. stocks rose on Wednesday as investors picked up beaten-down stocks, but all three major indexes were on track for their worst quarter since 2011.
At 2:32 p.m., the Dow Jones industrial average .DJI rose 156.77 points, or 0.98 percent, to 16,205.9, the S&P 500 .SPX gained 23.84 points, or 1.27 percent, to 1,907.93 and the Nasdaq Composite .IXIC added 74.47 points, or 1.65 percent, to 4,591.79.
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LONDON - A forecast-beating quarterly performance from supermarket chain Sainsbury's SBRY.L helped UK shares rebound on Wednesday, with Glencore (LONDON:GLEN) GLEN.L also recovering from a painful sell-off.
The FTSE 100 index .FTSE was up 2.6 percent at 6,061.61 points at its close, in line with the pan-European FTSEurofirst 300 .FTEU3 index.
For a full report, double click on .L
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TOKYO - Japanese stocks rebounded on Wednesday, shrugging off data that showed Japan's factory output unexpectedly fell for the second straight month in August. The Nikkei share average gained 2.7 percent to 17,388.15, but ended the quarter down 14.1 percent, making it one of the worst performers among developed markets.
The broader Topix <.TOPX gained 2.6 percent to 1,411.16, closing with all of its 33 subindexes in positive territory, but it lost 13.5 percent for the quarter.
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SYDNEY - Australian shares are poised for a positive start, tracking a rise on Wall Street, with the heavyweight resource sector likely to underpin gains on stronger commodity prices.
Global miner BHP Billiton (LONDON:BLT) BHP.AX is expected to open around 1 percent higher after a gain in its U.S. ADRs BHP.N .
The share price index futures YAPcm1 dipped 0.3 percent overnight, but it was a 72.6-point premium to the underlying S&P/ASX 200 index .AXJO close on Wednesday. The benchmark rose 2.1 percent in the last session, but posted the biggest quarterly loss in four years.
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FOREIGN EXCHANGE
NEW YORK - The dollar rose on Wednesday along with global stock markets, also getting lift from strong private-sector U.S. jobs data, while the euro fell back on a report euro zone inflation had turned negative.
The news lifted the dollar index .DXY , which measures the U.S. unit's strength against other major currencies. The index was last up 0.45 percent for the day and has been rising since mid 2014 on America's relatively strong economy and high interest rates.
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TREASURIES
NEW YORK - U.S. Treasuries prices fell on Wednesday, surrendering gains from Tuesday's flight-to-safety rally as Wall Street rallied.
In early U.S. trading, 10-year Treasuries US10YT=RR were down 7/32 in price to yield 2.079 percent, up from 2.057 percent late Tuesday.
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COMMODITIES
GOLD
NEW YORK - Gold fell 1 percent on Wednesday, heading for its biggest quarterly loss in a year as the dollar strengthened and the market awaited clarity on the timing of a hotly anticipated U.S. interest rate rise.
Gold has fallen nearly 5 percent since July in a fifth successive quarter of losses, its longest quarterly run lower since 1997. Spot gold XAU= was down 1.1 percent at $1,114.70 an ounce at 1400 GMT, while U.S. gold futures GCv1 for December delivery were down $13.50 an ounce at $1,113.30.
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BASE METALS
LONDON - Copper surged nearly 4 percent to hit its highest in a week on Wednesday while nickel touched a two-week peak, as bearish investors closed out positions at the quarter-end and ahead of Chinese holidays.
Three-month copper on the London Metal Exchange CMCU3 closed 3.8 percent higher at $5,160 a tonne after touching $5,192, the highest since Sept. 22.
For a full report, double click on MET/L
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OIL
NEW YORK - Oil prices were mixed in volatile trade on Wednesday, with global benchmark Brent up on worries about Russian airstrikes in Syria but U.S. crude down after data showed a surge in domestic inventories.
Brent LCOc1 was up 15 cents, or 0.3 percent, at $48.38 a barrel by 1:03 p.m. EDT (1703 GMT). It rose 67 cents at one point, after falling as much as 44 cents earlier. Brent fell 10 percent for September and 24 percent for the quarter.
U.S. crude CLc1 was down 20 cents at $45.03, surrendering earlier gains. It was on course to end down 8 percent on the month and 24 percent on the quarter.
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