(Updates prices, table) ---------------------------------------------------------------- Snapshot at: 07:44 / 2044 GMT ---------------------------------------------------------------- Stock Markets
NetChng
NetChng S&P/ASX 200
5,545.05 +0.00 NZSX 50
6,850.21 +0.00 DJIA
19,925.14 +128.71 Nikkei
19,250.52 +95.49 NASDAQ
5,473.46 +60.92 FTSE
6,968.57 +78.15 S&P 500
2,274.44 +17.48 Hang Seng
22,446.70 +13.68 SPI 200 Fut
5,581.00 +31.00 STI
2,955.23 +3.04 SSEC
3,155.36 +2.39 ---------------------------------------------------------------- Bonds
NetChg
NetChg AU 10 YR Bond
2.844 +0.014 US 10 YR Bond
2.473 -0.006 NZ 10 YR Bond
3.320 +0.010 US 30 YR Bond
3.133 -0.029 ---------------------------------------------------------------- Currencies
1700GMT
1700GMT AUD US$
0.7500 0.7486 NZD US$
0.7200 0.7188 EUR US$
1.0626 1.0641 Yen US$
115.14 115.15 ---------------------------------------------------------------- Commodities Gold (Lon)
1,158.55
Silver (Lon)
16.88 Gold (NY)
1,162.12
Light Crude
52.84 TRJCRB Index
193.46 +0.11 ---------------------------------------------------------------- Overnight market action with latest New York figures.
EQUITIES
NEW YORK - U.S. stocks racked up new all-time highs on Tuesday and the Dow Jones industrial average was fewer than 100 points away from the 20,000 mark as a post-election rally showed no signs of fatigue.
At 3:33 pm, the Dow Jones industrial average .DJI was up 0.62 percent at 19,919.51 points and the S&P 500 .SPX had gained 0.75 percent to 2,273.96.
The Nasdaq Composite .IXIC added 1.14 percent to 5,474.15.
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LONDON - Britain's top share index on Tuesday posted its highest closing level since October, buoyed by gains for television and telecom stocks following an uptick of M&A activity in the sector.
The blue chip FTSE 100 index .FTSE was up 1.1 percent at 6,968.57 points by the close, mirroring gains in the broader European market.
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TOKYO - Japanese shares pared early losses to rise for six straight sessions on Tuesday, with support coming from likely buying by the Bank of Japan and as investors snapped up cheaper domestic demand-driven stocks.
The Nikkei rose 0.5 percent to 19,250.52, its highest close since Dec. 30 of last year. The broader Topix .TOPX gained 0.6 percent to 1,540.25.
For a full report, double click on .T
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SYDNEY - Australian shares are set to open more than 0.5 percent higher on Wednesday, tracking Wall Street which reached all-time highs.
Local share price futures YAPcm1 rose 0.6 percent to 5,582.0 points, a 37-point premium to the underlying S&P/ASX 200 index .AXJO . The benchmark closed down 0.3 percent higher on Tuesday.
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FOREIGN EXCHANGE
NEW YORK - The U.S. dollar was steady against a basket of major currencies on Tuesday on uncertainty over whether the U.S. Federal Reserve would signal a slow or fast pace of interest rate increases at the end of a closely-watched policy meeting.
The U.S. dollar index .DXY was last up 0.04 percent at 101.070. The dollar was up 0.15 percent against the yen JPY= at 115.19 yen after hitting a 10-month high of 116.12 yen on Monday.
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TREASURIES
NEW YORK - Shorter-dated U.S. Treasury yields rose to their highest levels of the year on Tuesday, with 2-year notes touching over 6-year highs, ahead of an expected increase in U.S. overnight interest rates at Wednesday's Federal Open Market Committee meeting.
Benchmark U.S. 10-year note prices US10YT=RR fell 1/32, while the yield rose to 2.482 percent. On Monday, the yield hit 2.528 percent, its highest level since Sept. 29, 2014, according to Reuters data.
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COMMODITIES
GOLD
NEW YORK - Gold edged lower on Tuesday, losing its luster as the Federal Reserve began its two-day meeting during which it is expected to deliver the second U.S. interest rate hike in a decade and provide some insight into its outlook for 2017.
Spot gold XAU= slipped by 0.6 percent to $1,155.65 an ounce by 2:47 p.m. EST (1947 GMT), near Monday's 10-month low of $1,151.34 on Monday.
U.S. gold futures GCcv1 settled 0.6 percent lower at $1,159 per ounce.
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BASE METALS
LONDON - Some base metals fell on Tuesday ahead of an expected U.S. central bank decision to hike interest rates with copper the biggest loser after a further rise in inventories.
Benchmark copper CMCU3 on the London Metal Exchange closed down 1.3 percent at $5,691 a tonne.
For a full report, double click on MET/L
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OIL
NEW YORK - Oil prices edged off earlier gains to end Tuesday nearly unchanged, as the support from OPEC's plan to limit production were undercut by an energy watchdog's assessment of how much those nations are currently producing.
U.S. crude CLc1 futures, which hit a high of $53.41 a barrel in early trading, settled up just 15 cents to $52.98 a barrel, losing ground late in the session.
Brent crude LCOc1 ended up three cents to $55.72 a barrel.
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