(Updates with fresh numbers throughout; adds Sydney shares pre-open) ----------------------(07:24/2124 GMT)----------------------- Stock Markets
S&P/ASX 200
5,581.42 +106.43 NZSX 50
5,803.17 +27.27 DJIA
17,776.91 +93.33 Nikkei
20,376.59 +264.47 NASDAQ
4,997.46 +5.52 FTSE
6,432.21 -103.47 S&P 500
2,081.34 +12.58 Hang Seng
24,975.31 -260.97 SPI 200 Fut
5,508.00 -15.00 TRJCRB Index
215.53 -2.34 Bonds
AU 10 YR Bond
2.867 -0.032 US 10 YR Bond
2.255 -0.023 NZ 10 YR Bond
3.510 -0.035 US 30 YR Bond
3.035 -0.036 Currencies (Prev at 7pm NZST)
AUD US$
0.7444 0.7484 NZD US$
0.6648 0.6656 EUR US$
1.0994 1.1026 Yen US$
122.41 122.71 Commodities
Gold (Lon)
1156.25
Silver (Lon)
15.01
Gold (NY)
1169.65
Light Crude
52.95
---------------------------------------------------------------- Overnight market action with latest New York figures.
EQUITIES
NEW YORK - U.S. stocks ended higher after a choppy session on Tuesday, as a rebound in U.S. oil prices helped offset concerns about a slowdown in China and the Greek debt crisis.
The S&P energy index .SPNY reversed course to trade up 0.9 percent as U.S. crude oil CLc1 rose 0.7 percent after trading as much as 3.7 percent lower earlier in the day.
The Dow Jones industrial average .DJI rose 93.33 points, or 0.53 percent, to end at 17,776.91. The S&P 500 .SPX gained 12.58 points, or 0.61 percent, to 2,081.34 after briefly falling below its 200-day moving average. The Nasdaq Composite .IXIC added 5.52 points, or 0.11 percent, to 4,997.46.
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LONDON - Britain's benchmark equity index dropped on Tuesday to its lowest level in around six months, hit by persistent concerns over Greece and a pullback in mining stocks as metal prices fell.
The blue-chip FTSE 100 index .FTSE closed down 1.6 percent at 6,432.21 points, around its lowest since mid-January.
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TOKYO - Japan's Nikkei share average rebounded on Tuesday as bargain hunters stepped in a day after Greek angst triggered a sharp fall, but uncertainty over China's efforts to rescue its slumping stock market capped further gains.
The Nikkei share average .N225 gained 1.3 percent to 20,376.59, after tumbling 2.1 percent the previous day in a knee-jerk reaction to rejection of austerity measures by Greek voters.
The broader Topix .TOPX rose 1 percent to 1,637.23 and the JPX-Nikkei Index 400 .JPXNK400 advanced 1 percent to 14,788.86.
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SYDNEY - Australian shares are set for a weak start on Wednesday tracking subdued global cues while continuing weakness in iron ore and commodity prices will likely pressure resources stocks.
Local share price index futures .AXJO fell 0.3 percent overnight to 5,508 points, a 73.4-point discount to the underlying S&P/ASX 200 index .AXJO . The benchmark snapped a two-day losing streak on Tuesday to rise 106.4 points to 5,581.42.
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FOREIGN EXCHANGE
NEW YORK - The euro dropped to a five-week low against a buoyant U.S. dollar on Tuesday, after the European Central Bank tightened lending conditions for Greek banks, raising concerns the lenders could run out of cash.
Against the dollar, the euro fell 0.7 percent to $1.0978 EUR= , after sliding to a five-week low of $1.0917, while the dollar index .DXY rose 0.6 percent to 96.846, after earlier hitting a one-month high.
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TREASURIES
NEW YORK - U.S. Treasury yields tumbled on Tuesday, with investors worried about Greece's debt crisis and possible exit from the euro zone pushing benchmark 10-year yields to five-week lows.
The 10-year note US10YT=RR was last up 17/32 to yield 2.2153 percent after earlier yielding as little as 2.185 percent, a level last seen on June 2.
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COMMODITIES
GOLD
NEW YORK - Gold fell to a near four-month low on Tuesday as the dollar climbed ahead of an emergency euro zone summit on Greece with the country's banks rapidly running out of cash.
Spot gold XAU= dropped to its lowest since March 18 at $1,154.45 an ounce earlier and was down 1 percent at $1,158.15 an ounce by 1341 GMT, while U.S. gold futures GCcv1 dropped 1.5 percent to $1,155.90 an ounce.
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BASE METALS
LONDON - Copper prices crashed to a six-year low on Tuesday as the dollar gained on the potential for financial instability created by the Greek debt crisis and Chinese equity market losses.
Other industrial metals followed. Nickel CMNI3 slumped 10 percent, its biggest one-day percentage fall since May 2010, to $10,440 a tonne, its lowest level since April 2009.
Aluminium CMAL3 touched a six-year low at $1,641 and zinc CMZN3 hit $1,925, its lowest since Dec. 2013.
Benchmark copper CMCU3 on the London Metal Exchange fell nearly 6 percent to $5,261.50 a tonne earlier in the session, its lowest since July 2009. The metal, used in power and construction, ended $5,339.5 from $5,590 at Monday's close.
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OIL
NEW YORK - U.S. crude oil prices fell for a second straight day on Tuesday as worries about Greece and China's stock market losses sparked an investor flight to safe havens, and technical selling threatened to push oil further into a bear market.
U.S. crude CLc1 has lost more than 8 percent since Thursday's close for the sharpest two-day fall since end-November. It settled down 20 cents on Tuesday at $51.98 per barrel.
Brent LCOc1 , the more globally-used crude benchmark, settled up 31 cents at $56.85.
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