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118.92 119.54 ---------------------------------------------------------------- Commodities Gold (Lon)
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14.57 Gold (NY)
1,122.60
Light Crude
46.05 ---------------------------------------------------------------- Overnight market action with latest New York figures.
EQUITIES
NEW YORK -
U.S. stock indexes dropped more than 1 percent on Friday after a mixed August jobs report did little to quell investor uncertainty about whether the Federal Reserve will increase interest rates this month.
The Dow Jones industrial average .DJI ended down 1.66 percent at 16,102.38 points and the S&P 500 .SPX lost 1.53 percent to close at 1,921.23. The Nasdaq Composite .IXIC gave up 1.05 percent to 4,683.92.
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LONDON -
Britain's top share index fell sharply on Friday, following the release of U.S. jobs data that suggested to some that a Federal Reserve interest rate hike in September is still a possibility.
Britain's FTSE 100 .FTSE was down 151.18 points, or 2.4 percent, at 6,042.92 at the close. It gave away all of Thursday's 1.8 percent rise, leaving the index down 3.3 percent for the week.
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TOKYO -
Japanese stocks slipped to seven-month lows, with the Nikkei posting its biggest weekly fall in almost a year and a half with speculators dumping futures while investors stayed risk-averse ahead of the release of a key U.S. jobs report later in the day.
The Nikkei .N225 lost 2.2 percent to close at 17,792.16, shedding 7 percent throughout its fourth straight week of declines, its largest weekly fall since April 2014.
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SYDNEY - Australian shares are poised for a weak start on Monday tracking a global sell-off last week although a depreciating Australian dollar may provide some support as it makes stocks appear cheaper for foreign fund managers.
Share price index futres YAPcm1 fell 0.6 percent to 4,997 points, sitting at a 43.6-point discount to the underlying S&P/ASX 200 index .AXJO . The benchmark edged up 0.25 percent on Friday to 5,040.6 points but posted its biggest weekly fall since June.
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FOREIGN EXCHANGE
NEW YORK -
The dollar eased on Friday as data showing U.S. unemployment in August at its lowest since 2008 did little to clear away currency markets' uncertainty over whether the Federal Reserve will raise interest rates later this month.
The dollar index .DXY of major currencies traded against the greenback repeatedly fluctuated between gains and losses and last was off 0.13 percent.The dollar was down 1 percent against the yen JPY= , which was last at 118.90 yen.
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TREASURIES
NEW YORK -
U.S. medium- and long-dated Treasuries prices rose on Friday, while prices for short-dated notes were mostly flat, after U.S. monthly employment data bolstered the case for the Federal Reserve to hike interest rates later this month.
Benchmark 10-year yields hit a more than one-week low of 2.11 percent, while 30-year yields hit their lowest level since Aug. 31 at 2.88 percent. Two-year note yields US2YT=RR were last little changed on the day at 0.7 percent.
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COMMODITIES
GOLD
NEW YORK -
Gold prices fell towards a second weekly loss on Friday after U.S. payrolls data failed to allay uncertainty over the prospect of a near-term interest rate hike from the Federal Reserve.
Spot gold XAU= was down 0.4 percent at $1,120.80 an ounce at 2:49 p.m. EDT (1849 GMT), while U.S. gold futures GCZ5 for December delivery settled down 0.3 percent at $1,121.40. The metal is on track to fall for a second week.
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BASE METALS
LONDON -
Copper and other industrial metals fell on Friday, unnerved by prospects of an increase in U.S. interest rates and the reopening next week of the hard-hit Chinese stock market.
Other metals also fell, with LME nickel CMNI3 closing down 1 percent at $9,900 a tonne, aluminium CMAL3 off 1.4 percent at $1,608, zinc CMZN3 1.4 percent lower at $1,785 and lead CMPB3 sliding 3.1 percent to finish at $1,665.
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OIL
NEW YORK -
Crude futures fell about 2 percent on Friday as traders shrugged off a drop in the number of U.S. rigs drilling for oil and focused instead on a supply glut and declining stock prices on Wall Street.
Brent LCOc1 , the global oil benchmark, settled down $1.07, or 2.1 percent, at $49.61 a barrel. It was down almost 1 percent on the week.
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