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Overnight market action with latest New York figures.
EQUITIES
NEW YORK - U.S. stocks climbed on Monday, with the S&P 500
bouncing from its worst weekly drop in the past seven as
concerns eased over the situation in Crimea, even as the region
voted to join Russia.
The Dow Jones industrial average rose 175.16 points
or 1.09 percent, to 16,240.83, the S&P 500 gained 17.02
points or 0.92 percent, to 1,858.15 and the Nasdaq Composite
added 43.086 points or 1.01 percent, to 4,288.483.
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LONDON - Britain's top share index looked set to snap its
longest losing streak in 2-1/2 years on Monday after the
building sector surged on a government plan to pump more cash
into a scheme to boost construction.
The promise of better profits in the sector, one of the
best-performing this year, helped the FTSE 100 add 0.7
percent to 6,575.76 points, bouncing off Friday's one-month low
after a week in which it fell 2.8 percent. (Full Story)
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TOKYO - Japan's Nikkei share average stumbled to a 6-week
low on Monday as escalating tensions in Ukraine soured investor
sentiment, although SoftBank Corp jumped after its
affiliate said it would go public in the United States.
The Nikkei slipped 0.4 percent to 14,277.67, hitting
its lowest closing level since February 6. The benchmark tumbled
3.3 percent on Friday and shed 6.2 percent last week, marking
the biggest weekly drop since last June.
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FOREIGN EXCHANGE
NEW YORK - The safe-haven yen fell broadly on Monday after
the United States and the European Union imposed what investors
perceived to be modest economic sanctions on some officials of
Russia and Ukraine following Crimea's vote to join Moscow over
the weekend.
In mid-morning trading, the dollar rose 0.4 percent against
the yen to 101.76 yen, rising after four days of losses
as investors had bought the safe-haven Japanese currency in the
midst of the Russia-Ukraine crisis.
For a full report, double click on USD/
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TREASURIES
NEW YORK - U.S. Treasuries fell in price on Monday after
Sunday's referendum in Crimea passed without major violence,
reducing safety demand for U.S. government bonds, and before the
Federal Reserve's highly anticipated meeting on Tuesday and
Wednesday.
Benchmark 10-year notes fell 8/32 in price on
Monday to yield 2.67 percent, in the middle of a two-month long
range that has kept yields between 2.57 percent and 2.82
percent.
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COMMODITIES
GOLD
LONDON - Gold prices briefly hit their highest in six months
on Monday as appetite for risk remained cautious following
Crimea's vote to break from Ukraine and Western countries'
sanctions on Moscow and Kiev officials.
Spot gold hit its highest since Sept. 9 at $1,391.76
an ounce in earlier trade but was at $1,380.85, down 0.1
percent, by 1455 GMT, as equity markets regained some strength.
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BASE METALS
LONDON - Copper was steady on Monday with buyers attracted
by low prices after a sharp drop last week, but persistent
concerns about top consumer China's growth outlook kept the
metal within sight of the near four-year low it hit last week.
Benchmark three-month copper on the London Metal
Exchange closed at $6,479 a tonne, off an intraday low of $6,410
a tonne and up a touch from a last bid of $6,468.50 on Friday.
For a full report, double click on MET/L
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OIL
NEW YORK - Brent oil futures fell by nearly $2 per barrel on
Monday as ample global supplies outweighed concerns over
continued tensions between Russia and the West over the fate of
Crimea.
U.S. crude futures fell $1.16 cents to $97.73 per
barrel by 1700 GMT, having fallen gradually by more than $1 in
the hour after Obama's comments.
Brent crude futures fell $1.54 to $106.67 per barrel
after tumbling by nearly $2 after Obama's brief address.
For a full report, double click on O/R
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