(Add Australian stock market trend) ---------------------------------------------------------------- 07:59 / 2059 GMT ---------------------------------------------------------------- Stock Markets
NetChng
NetChng S&P/ASX 200
5,467.39 -15.64 NZSX 50
7,167.81 -29.48 DJIA
18,240.49 -28.01 Nikkei
16,860.09 -39.01 NASDAQ
5,292.41 -14.45 FTSE
7,044.39 +44.43 S&P 500
2,153.74 -7.03 Hang Seng
23,851.82 -100.68 SPI 200 Fut
5,458.00 +8.00 STI
2,875.24 -9.98 SSEC
3,005.51 +7.03 ---------------------------------------------------------------- Bonds
NetChg
NetChg AU 10 YR Bond
2.182 -0.001 US 10 YR Bond
1.723 +0.000 NZ 10 YR Bond
2.515 +0.000 US 30 YR Bond
2.455 +0.000 ---------------------------------------------------------------- Currencies
1700GMT
1700GMT AUD US$
0.7601 0.7575 NZD US$
0.7179 0.7125 EUR US$
1.1175 1.1114 Yen US$
103.28 103.91 ---------------------------------------------------------------- Commodities Gold (Lon)
1,258.75
Silver (Lon)
17.51 Gold (NY)
1,256.48
Light Crude
49.81 TRJCRB Index
188.32 -0.23 ---------------------------------------------------------------- Overnight market action with latest New York figures.
EQUITIES
NEW YORK - U.S. stocks slipped on Friday as a drop in the British pound injected unwanted volatility to financial markets, while a weaker-than-expected jobs report was not enough to derail expectations for a rate hike from the Federal Reserve before the end of the year.
The Dow Jones industrial average .DJI fell 28.01 points, or 0.15 percent, to 18,240.49, the S&P 500 .SPX lost 7.03 points, or 0.33 percent, to 2,153.74 and the Nasdaq Composite .IXIC dropped 14.45 points, or 0.27 percent, to 5,292.41.
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LONDON - Sterling lost as much as 10 percent of its value in just a few minutes of trading early on Friday, a "flash crash" that fuelled concerns about the vulnerability of the currency and other British assets to investor worries about Brexit.
The fall in sterling sounded like good news to investors in internationally focused UK firms, which gain on overseas revenues and competitiveness when the currency falls. The FTSE 100 index .FTSE was up 0.6 percent at its close, led by mining companies and Asia-exposed banks Standard Chartered STAN.L and HSBC HSBA.L while other European stock markets fell sharply.
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TOKYO - Japanese stocks slipped on Friday amid investor caution before an impending U.S. jobs report that could impact near-term direction for risk asset markets.
The Nikkei .N225 fell 0.2 percent to 16,860.09, snapping four sessions of gains. The index still rose 2.5 percent on the week, helped by a sharp slide in the yen versus the dollar.
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SYDNEY - Australian shares are set fo a weak start tracking a decline on Wall Street and commodities with investors awaiting the second presidential debate between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton ahead of the U.S. elections.
Local share price index YAPcm1 edged up 0.1 percent to 5,458 points, but that was a 9.4-point discount to the close of the underlying S&P/ASX 200 index .AXJO on Friday. The benchmark touched a six-week peak in the last session and ended the week 0.6 percent higher.
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FOREIGN EXCHANGE
NEW YORK - Sterling plunged on Friday after what traders called a "flash crash" knocked the currency to a 31-year low, while the dollar slipped on news of unexpectedly weak U.S. jobs growth in September.
On Friday, the pound plunged about 10 percent from levels around $1.2600 to $1.1378 GBP=D4 in a matter of minutes in thin early Asian trading.
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TREASURIES
NEW YORK - U.S. Treasuries ended little changed on Friday after data showed that U.S. employment growth unexpectedly slowed in September but was stronger in August than initially reported, and traders kept bets that the Federal Reserve is likely to raise rates in December.
Benchmark 10-year notes US10YT=RR rose 2/32 in price to yield 1.74 percent. Earlier the yield rose as high as 1.77 percent, the highest since June 3.
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COMMODITIES
GOLD
NEW YORK - Gold fell for the ninth straight session on Friday, briefly tapping a four-month low as computer-generated selling offset support from weak U.S. payrolls data, but bullion was on track for its biggest weekly drop in more than three years. Spot gold XAU= was down 0.09 percent at $1,252.71 an ounce by 3:11 p.m. EDT (1911 GMT), after falling 1 percent to $1,241.20, the lowest since June 8. It was on track to close the week down 4.8 percent, its biggest drop since June 2013.
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BASE METALS
LONDON - Copper rose on Friday after the dollar pared gains on data showing U.S. employers took on fewer workers than expected in September, indicating the Federal Reserve could be more cautious about raising interest rates. Three-month copper CMCU3 on the London Metal Exchange ended 0.4 percent higherat $4,775 a tonne. Aluminium CMAL3 closed down 0.1 percent at $1,675. It hit $1,682.50 earlier in the session, its highest since Aug. 19.
For a full report, double click on MET/L
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OIL
NEW YORK - Oil fell about 1 percent on Friday as players took profits on a rally over the past week that propelled prices nearly 15 percent to four-month highs on hopes of OPEC crude output cuts.
Brent crude LCOc1 settled down 58 cents, or 1.1 percent, at $51.93 a barrel. Earlier in the day, it hit $52.84 cents, three cents short of a one-year high.
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