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6,844.74 +20.92 DJIA
17,897.46 -28.97 Nikkei
0.00 +0.00 NASDAQ
4,938.22 -7.67 FTSE
6,343.75 -21.35 S&P 500
2,080.73 -2.05 Hang Seng
21,316.47 -21.34 SPI 200 Fut
5,142.00 -4.00 STI
2,923.94 +10.01 SSEC
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1.754 +0.000 NZ 10 YR Bond
2.855 -0.020 US 30 YR Bond
2.561 +0.000 ---------------------------------------------------------------- Currencies
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0.7665 0.7719 NZD US$
0.6882 0.6901 EUR US$
1.1291 1.1257 Yen US$
108.23 109.35 ---------------------------------------------------------------- Commodities Gold (Lon)
1,227.10
Silver (Lon)
16.21 Gold (NY)
1,233.66
Light Crude
40.36 TRJCRB Index
173.64 -1.14 ---------------------------------------------------------------- Overnight market action with latest New York figures.
EQUITIES
NEW YORK - Wall Street dipped on Friday as oil price declines weighed on energy shares and Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) dragged on the market, but major indexes still posted gains for the week.
The Dow Jones industrial average .DJI fell 28.97 points, or 0.16 percent, to 17,897.46, the S&P 500 .SPX lost 2.05 points, or 0.1 percent, to 2,080.73 and the Nasdaq Composite .IXIC dropped 7.67 points, or 0.16 percent, to 4,938.22.
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LONDON - British shares retreated on Friday as stagnation at the top end of the housing market allied to persistent concerns about a possible British exit from the European Union put pressure on housebuilders.
The FTSE 100 index .FTSE was down 21.35 points, or 0.3 percent, at 6,343.75 points by the close, broadly in line with the rest of the European market.
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TOKYO - Japanese stocks fell on Friday as investors took profits after a three-day rally that added 1,159 points to the benchmark Nikkei index.
The broader Topix .TOPX fell 0.7 percent to end the day at 1,361.40, with all but six of its 33 subindexes in negative territory. The index ended the week 5.7 percent higher.
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SYDNEY - Australian shares are set to open lower on Monday under pressure from mining and energy stocks on lack of faith in China's efforts to prop up growth and after a deal by oil exporters to freeze oil output fell apart.
Local share price index futures YAPcm1 fell 0.1 percent to 5,142.0, which was a 15.5-point discount to the underlying S&P/ASX 200 index .AXJO close. The benchmark rose 0.7 percent last Friday.
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FOREIGN EXCHANGE
NEW YORK - The dollar fell broadly on Friday as a slide in oil prices ahead of weekend talks among producers in Doha and a soft U.S. consumer sentiment report capped risk appetite and spurred investors to buy safe-haven currencies such as the yen.
In late trading, the dollar index .DXY slid 0.2 percent to 94.683. For the week though, it ended on a positive note with a 0.5 percent rise.
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TREASURIES
NEW YORK - U.S. Treasury yields fell on Friday after disappointing consumer sentiment and industrial output data combined with lower oil and stock prices and a weaker dollar to stoke demand for government debt.
Benchmark 10-year Treasury prices US10YT=RR rose 9/32 for a yield of 1.748 percent, down more than 3 basis points from late Thursday. The 10-year yield hit a session low of 1.740 percent.
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COMMODITIES
GOLD
NEW YORK - Gold rose on Friday after three days of declines as the U.S. dollar and major stock markets weakened, but bullion was headed for its first weekly drop in three.
Spot gold XAU= was up 0.4 percent at $1,231.96 an ounce by 2:50 p.m. EDT (1850 GMT). It was heading for a 0.6 percent loss for the week
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BASE METALS
LONDON - Copper fell on Friday after strong Chinese economic data raised fears that government stimulus programmes in the top metals consumer are not sustainable, and as the market also looked ahead to a key meeting of oil producers.
Three-month copper on the London Metal Exchange CMCU3 closed down 0.5 percent at $4,807.50 a tonne after ending little changed the previous session. Prices gained 3.4 percent for the week, the most since the week of March 4.
For a full report, double click on MET/L
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OIL
NEW YORK - Oil prices fell on Friday in subdued trade as traders and analysts anticipate a weekend meeting of major oil exporters to do little to help to clear global oversupply quickly, even though it would provide a floor for the market.
Brent crude futures LCOc1 settled down 74 cents at $43.10 while U.S. crude CLc1 ended down $1.14 cents at $40.36. Both contracts lost more than 3.5 percent earlier in the day. However, on a weekly basis, prices were higher for the second week in a row in the run up to the meeting.
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