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Stock Markets
S&P/ASX 200 4,693.20 -21.70 NZSX 50 3,156.46 +3.66
DJIA 9,820.20 +36.28 Nikkei 10,370.54 -73.26
NASDAQ 2,132.86 +6.11 FTSE 5,172.89 +8.94
S&P 500 1,068.30 +2.81 Hang Seng 21,768.51 -145.06
SPI 200 Fut 4,690.00 +7.00 CRB Index 259.99 -1.94
Bonds
AU 10 YR Bond 94.620 -0.045 US 10 YR Bond 3.469 +0.000
NZ 10 YR Bond 5.660 +0.000 US 30 YR Bond 4.222 +0.000
Currencies (Prev at 7pm NZST)
AUD US$ 0.8673 0.8680 NZD US$ 0.7087 0.7087
EUR US$ 1.4707 1.4698 Yen US$ 91.28 91.08
Commodities
Gold (Lon) 1012.00 Silver (Lon) 17.110
Gold (NY) 1006.15 Light Crude 71.85
Overnight market action to New York close on Friday.
EQUITIES
NEW YORK - U.S. stocks rose on Friday as Procter & Gamble and major home builders advanced on positive brokerage comments and investors bet the economic recovery will be strong enough to sustain corporate profits.
The Dow Jones industrial average was up 36.28 points, or 0.37 percent, at 9,820.20. The Standard & Poor's 500 Index was up 2.81 points, or 0.26 percent, at 1,068.30. The Nasdaq Composite Index was up 6.11 points, or 0.29 percent, at 2,132.86.
It was the market's second straight week of gains.
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LONDON - Britain's leading share index logged a sixth straight session of gains on Friday, up 0.2 percent supported by early gains on Wall Street, with a switch into defensives and some profit-taking in commodity issues.
At the close, the FTSE 100 was 8.94 points firmer at
5,172.89, another 12
month closing high, having earlier reached a new 2009 peak intraday of 5,183.88.
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TOKYO - Japan's Nikkei stock average slipped 0.7 percent on Friday, with financials hit after consumer finance firm Aiful Corp said it was asking for debt repayments to be rescheduled.
The benchmark Nikkei pared its losses to 73.26 points or 10,370.54 after falling as much as 1.4 percent during the morning, and was down 0.7 percent on the week.
The broader Topix ended flat at 939.44.
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FOREIGN EXCHANGE
NEW YORK - The dollar rebounded from a one-year low against the euro on Friday as waning risk appetite cut demand for higher-yielding currencies and boosted safe-haven demand for the greenback.
Sterling declined across the board, hitting a near five-month low euro on renewed concerns about the UK banking sector.
In late New York trading, the euro fell 0.3 percent to $1.4701. It hit a one-year high on Thursday and has risen 2.6 percent so far this month.
The dollar index, which measures the dollar's value against a basket of six major currencies, rose 0.4 percent to
76.500, having bounced off Thursday's one
year low of 76.010.
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TREASURIES
NEW YORK - U.S. Treasury debt prices slipped on Friday as dealers cut prices to clear out inventory before underwriting three new note auctions next week.
The price-cutting also occurred ahead of next week's Federal Reserve policy meeting, amid talk that some policymakers might be ready to talk about tempering some of the Fed's efforts to bolster the banking system and lending.
In afternoon trade, the 30-year bond was down
1
6/32, its yield rising to 4.24 percent from 4.17 percent on Thursday.
The price cuts left benchmark 10-year notes down 26/32, their yields at 3.49 percent, up from 3.39 eprcent on Thursday, but still much lower than levels in early August.
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COMMODITIES
GOLD
NEW YORK - Gold ended lower on Friday on profit taking, capping a volatile week in which the metal had risen toward its all-time high $1,030.80 an ounce as a steadily falling dollar boosted investment demand.
U.S. December gold futures settled down $3.20 at $1,010.30 an ounce on the COMEX division of the New York Mercantile Exchange.
Spot gold was at $1,009 an ounce at 2:38 p.m. EDT (1838 GMT), against its previous finish of $1,011.45.
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BASE METALS
LONDON - Industrial metals prices fell across the board on Friday as the U.S. dollar bounced up off a one-year low and the copper market worried about swelling inventory levels and slowing Chinese imports.
Copper for December delivery on the New York Mercantile Exchange's COMEX division tumbled 11.10 cents, or 3.8 percent, to settle at $2.7850 a lb, near the bottom of its session rang 1696624486
On the London Metal Exchange (LME), copper for three-months delivery shed $210 to end at $6,175 a tonne.
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OIL
NEW YORK - Oil prices slipped toward $72 a barrel on Friday as dealers took profits from a 5 percent rally earlier in the week and the U.S. dollar bounced from a near-one-year low.
U.S. crude for October delivery fell 43 cents to settle at $72.04 a barrel while London Brent fell 23 cents to $71.32.
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Stock Markets
S&P/ASX 200 4,693.20 -21.70 NZSX 50 3,156.46 +3.66
DJIA 9,820.20 +36.28 Nikkei 10,370.54 -73.26
NASDAQ 2,132.86 +6.11 FTSE 5,172.89 +8.94
S&P 500 1,068.30 +2.81 Hang Seng 21,768.51 -145.06
SPI 200 Fut 4,690.00 +7.00 CRB Index 259.99 -1.94
Bonds
AU 10 YR Bond 94.620 -0.045 US 10 YR Bond 3.469 +0.000
NZ 10 YR Bond 5.660 +0.000 US 30 YR Bond 4.222 +0.000
Currencies (Prev at 7pm NZST)
AUD US$ 0.8673 0.8680 NZD US$ 0.7087 0.7087
EUR US$ 1.4707 1.4698 Yen US$ 91.28 91.08
Commodities
Gold (Lon) 1012.00 Silver (Lon) 17.110
Gold (NY) 1006.15 Light Crude 71.85
Overnight market action to New York close on Friday.
EQUITIES
NEW YORK - U.S. stocks rose on Friday as Procter & Gamble and major home builders advanced on positive brokerage comments and investors bet the economic recovery will be strong enough to sustain corporate profits.
The Dow Jones industrial average was up 36.28 points, or 0.37 percent, at 9,820.20. The Standard & Poor's 500 Index was up 2.81 points, or 0.26 percent, at 1,068.30. The Nasdaq Composite Index was up 6.11 points, or 0.29 percent, at 2,132.86.
It was the market's second straight week of gains.
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LONDON - Britain's leading share index logged a sixth straight session of gains on Friday, up 0.2 percent supported by early gains on Wall Street, with a switch into defensives and some profit-taking in commodity issues.
At the close, the FTSE 100 was 8.94 points firmer at
5,172.89, another 12
month closing high, having earlier reached a new 2009 peak intraday of 5,183.88.
For a full report, double click on
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TOKYO - Japan's Nikkei stock average slipped 0.7 percent on Friday, with financials hit after consumer finance firm Aiful Corp said it was asking for debt repayments to be rescheduled.
The benchmark Nikkei pared its losses to 73.26 points or 10,370.54 after falling as much as 1.4 percent during the morning, and was down 0.7 percent on the week.
The broader Topix ended flat at 939.44.
For a full report, double click on
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FOREIGN EXCHANGE
NEW YORK - The dollar rebounded from a one-year low against the euro on Friday as waning risk appetite cut demand for higher-yielding currencies and boosted safe-haven demand for the greenback.
Sterling declined across the board, hitting a near five-month low euro on renewed concerns about the UK banking sector.
In late New York trading, the euro fell 0.3 percent to $1.4701. It hit a one-year high on Thursday and has risen 2.6 percent so far this month.
The dollar index, which measures the dollar's value against a basket of six major currencies, rose 0.4 percent to
76.500, having bounced off Thursday's one
year low of 76.010.
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TREASURIES
NEW YORK - U.S. Treasury debt prices slipped on Friday as dealers cut prices to clear out inventory before underwriting three new note auctions next week.
The price-cutting also occurred ahead of next week's Federal Reserve policy meeting, amid talk that some policymakers might be ready to talk about tempering some of the Fed's efforts to bolster the banking system and lending.
In afternoon trade, the 30-year bond was down
1
6/32, its yield rising to 4.24 percent from 4.17 percent on Thursday.
The price cuts left benchmark 10-year notes down 26/32, their yields at 3.49 percent, up from 3.39 eprcent on Thursday, but still much lower than levels in early August.
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COMMODITIES
GOLD
NEW YORK - Gold ended lower on Friday on profit taking, capping a volatile week in which the metal had risen toward its all-time high $1,030.80 an ounce as a steadily falling dollar boosted investment demand.
U.S. December gold futures settled down $3.20 at $1,010.30 an ounce on the COMEX division of the New York Mercantile Exchange.
Spot gold was at $1,009 an ounce at 2:38 p.m. EDT (1838 GMT), against its previous finish of $1,011.45.
For a full report, double click on
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BASE METALS
LONDON - Industrial metals prices fell across the board on Friday as the U.S. dollar bounced up off a one-year low and the copper market worried about swelling inventory levels and slowing Chinese imports.
Copper for December delivery on the New York Mercantile Exchange's COMEX division tumbled 11.10 cents, or 3.8 percent, to settle at $2.7850 a lb, near the bottom of its session rang 1696624486
On the London Metal Exchange (LME), copper for three-months delivery shed $210 to end at $6,175 a tonne.
For a full report, double click on
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OIL
NEW YORK - Oil prices slipped toward $72 a barrel on Friday as dealers took profits from a 5 percent rally earlier in the week and the U.S. dollar bounced from a near-one-year low.
U.S. crude for October delivery fell 43 cents to settle at $72.04 a barrel while London Brent fell 23 cents to $71.32.
For a full report, double click on
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