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Gold (Lon) 1334.75 Silver (Lon) 22.050
Gold (NY) 1323.01 Light Crude 103.10
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Overnight market action with latest New York figures.
EQUITIES
NEW YORK - U.S. stocks jumped 1 percent on Monday, with the
S&P 500 climbing to an all-time high as optimism over merger
activity helped Wall Street erase this year's early weakness.
The Dow Jones industrial average was up 181.61
points, or 1.13 percent, at 16,284.91. The Standard & Poor's 500
Index was up 21.09 points, or 1.15 percent, at 1,857.34.
The Nasdaq Composite Index was up 45.62 points, or 1.07
percent, at 4,309.03.
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LONDON - Gains at mobile telecoms group Vodafone VOD.L and
business supplies distributor Bunzl BNZL.L enabled Britain's top
equity index to rise on Monday for the seventh straight session.
The blue-chip FTSE 100 index closed up by 0.4
percent, or 27.80 points, at 6,865.86 points - just 1.2 percent
below its December 1999 record level of 6,950.60.
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TOKYO - Japan's Nikkei average eased from a three-week high
in an erratic session on Monday as a firmer yen and weak Asian
markets triggered profit-taking following recent sharp gains.
The benchmark Nikkei closed down 0.2 percent at
14,837.68, after surging 2.9 percent on Friday.
The broader Topix index fell 0.3 percent to
1,219.07, with 2.32 billion shares changing hands, among the
lowest volume so far this year.
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FOREIGN EXCHANGE
NEW YORK - The dollar edged lower against a basket of major
currencies on Monday as investors' risk appetite improved amid
expectations that Ukraine would receive international aid,
calming fears surrounding the heavily-indebted country.
The dollar index was down slightly at 80.218 after
posting its first weekly gain in three weeks. Expectations that
Ukraine would receive aid from Western donors helped stoke
investors' risk appetite. (Full Story)
The greenback also fell sharply against the so-called
commodity currencies - the Australian , Canadian
and New Zealand dollars .
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TREASURIES
NEW YORK - U.S. Treasuries' prices changed little on Monday,
with trading in the safe-haven asset class unaffected by
political upheaval in Ukraine and mixed readings from big
economies such as those of Germany and China.
In muted New York trading, benchmark 10-year U.S. Treasury
notes were off 2/32 in price, pushing the yield to
2.742 percent. The thirty-year bond was down 1/32 of
a point in price, taking the yield to 3.693 percent.
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COMMODITIES
GOLD
NEW YORK - Gold rose to a near four-month high on Monday,
adding to last week's gains as investors grew more anxious about
the pace of the U.S. economic recovery and China's growth.
Spot gold rose 1.1 percent to $1,337.40 an ounce in
earlier trade, its highest since Oct. 31. It was trading at
$1,336.00 by 1533 GMT, up 1 percent.
U.S. gold futures for April delivery rose $10.20 an
ounce to $1,333.90.
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BASE METALS
LONDON - Copper fell on Monday to its lowest in more than
two weeks as data showed growth in new housing prices in China
slowed in January and worries about credit restrictions in the
country's huge property sector hurt the demand outlook for
metals.
Three-month copper on the London Metal Exchange
ended at $7,077 a tonne, down from a close of $7,155 on Friday.
Earlier in the session it hit an intraday low of $7,033, its
lowest since Feb. 6.
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OIL
NEW YORK - U.S. oil rose more than $1 on Monday, supported
by upbeat economic data that fueled hopes for demand growth and
expectations that supplies would continue to drain from the
benchmark delivery point for the U.S. oil futures contract.
Brent crude was up 75 cents at $110.60 a barrel by
11:46 a.m. EST (1646 GMT), after ending higher for a second
straight week. U.S. oil was up $1.18 to $103.38, after
climbing for the sixth week in its longest winning streak in
more than a year.
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