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EQUITIES

GLOBAL - Benchmark 10-year U.S. Treasury yields registered their biggest weekly rise in more than two decades on Friday, while the dollar fell, in a turbulent week marked by the trade war and a loss of appetite for some U.S. assets.

MSCI's gauge of stocks across the globe .MIWD00000PUS rose 11.36 points, or 1.46%, to 790.63.

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NEW YORK - Wall Street posted solid gains on Friday as big banks kicked off first-quarter earnings season and investors closed the book on a turbulent week of wild swings driven by the chaos of U.S. President Donald Trump's multi-front trade war.

The Dow Jones Industrial Average .DJI rose 619.05 points, or 1.56%, to 40,212.71, the S&P 500 .SPX gained 95.31 points, or 1.81%, to 5,363.36 and the Nasdaq Composite .IXIC gained 337.15 points, or 2.06%, to 16,724.46.

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LONDON - European stocks lost ground on Friday, with the STOXX 600 down for a third week, after a surge in volatility in response to abrupt U.S. tariff shifts that deepened fears over the economic impact of a trade war.

The pan-European STOXX 600 .STOXX edged 0.1% lower, after China raised tariffs on U.S. goods to 125% from 84% in an escalation of the trade tensions between the world’s two largest economies.

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TOKYO - Japan's Nikkei share average slumped on Friday in a brutal end to a volatile week as investors worried about the economic fallout from the rapidly escalating U.S.-China trade war as well as a strong yen that has been lifted by safe-haven flows.

The Nikkei .N225 ended 2.96% lower at 33,585.58 after declining as much as 5% earlier in the session.

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SHANGHAI - Hong Kong and China stocks reversed earlier declines on Friday and narrowed the week's losses, as a chip share rally and potential state buying shielded against more losses from the escalating trade war with the U.S.

The Hang Seng Index .HSI jumped 1.1% at the close, reversing an earlier fall of as much as 1.2% in morning trades.

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AUSTRALIA - Australian shares closed lower on Friday, ending a turbulent week dominated by U.S.-China trade tensions, as tit-for-tat tariffs fuelled global uncertainty and dented market sentiment.

The S&P/ASX 200 index .AXJO ended 0.8% down at 7,646.5.

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SEOUL - South Korean shares fell on Friday, tracking Wall Street's overnight losses amid worries about U.S. tariffs, and posted a third straight weekly loss.

The benchmark KOSPI .KS11 closed down 0.50% at 2,432.72.

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FOREIGN EXCHANGE

NEW YORK - The dollar continued to slide against major currencies on Friday as the back-and-forth over import tariffs shook investor confidence in the safety of the greenback, sending it to its lowest level in a decade against the Swiss franc and a three-year low versus the euro.

The dollar index =USD, which measures the greenback against a basket of currencies including the yen and the euro, fell 0.56% to 99.958 - hitting its lowest mark since April 2022.

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SHANGHAI - China's yuan bounced off a 2007 trough against a weaker dollar on Friday, but it slipped to a 19-month low against currencies of its major trading partners, as a trade war between the world's two largest economies showed few signs of abating.

The onshore yuan CNY=CFXS rebounded from a trough of 7.3518 per dollar hit a day earlier, a level last seen during the global financial crisis, to 7.3245 at the domestic close (0830 GMT).

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AUSTRALIA - The Australian dollar was looking to end a wild week with sizable gains on a crumbling U.S. dollar as the damage done to investor confidence by the chaos over tariffs sparked an exodus from U.S. assets.

The Aussie was last at $0.6219 AUD=D3, having rallied from a five-year trough of $0.5910 early in the week.

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SEOUL - The Korean won strengthened against the dollar on Friday.

The won was quoted at 1,449.9 per dollar on the onshore settlement platform KRW=KFTC, 0.39% higher than its previous close.

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TREASURIES

NEW YORK - Benchmark U.S. 10-year Treasury yields posted their biggest weekly increase in more than two decades on Friday as U.S. President Donald Trump’s erratic approach to tariffs prompted global market dislocations and forced selling.

The 10-year note yield US10YT=RR was last up 8.6 basis points on the day at 4.478% and reached 4.592%, the highest since February 13. It posted its largest weekly increase since 2001.

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LONDON - A selloff in U.S. assets continued on Friday, leading the yield spread between U.S. Treasuries and German Bunds to record its biggest weekly rise since the 1990s.

The German 10-year bond yield DE10YT=RR, the benchmark for the euro zone bloc, eased 5 bps to 2.53%.

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TOKYO - The yield curve on Japanese government bonds (JGBs) steepened on Friday as investors sold super-long maturities amid worries about Japan's financial health, as the country seeks measures to cope with the impact of U.S. tariffs.

The benchmark 10-year JGB yield JP10YTN=JBTC slipped 1.5 bps to 1.355%.

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COMMODITIES

GOLD - Gold blazed past the $3,200 mark on Friday, as a faltering dollar and an escalating U.S.-China trade war stirred recession fears, sending investors flocking to the safety of the yellow metal.

Spot gold XAU= was up nearly 2% at $3,235.89 an ounce at 2:32 p.m. ET (1832 GMT), after hitting a record high of $3,245.28 earlier in the session.

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IRON ORE - Iron ore futures flitted sideways on Friday, but were on track for a weekly loss, as escalating trade tensions between the United States and China - the world's two largest economies - clouded the outlook on demand.

The most-traded September iron ore contract on China's Dalian Commodity Exchange (DCE) DCIOcv1 closed daytime trade 0.71% higher at 708 yuan ($96.70) a metric ton, registering a weekly loss of 4.8%.

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BASE METALS - Copper and other base metals were on track to finish a very volatile week on the rise in London on Friday, supported by a weaker dollar, though gains were capped by the potential for trade conflict between the U.S. and China to curb demand.

Benchmark three-month copper CMCU3 on the London Metal Exchange $(LME.AU)$ was up 2.0% at $9,166.50 a metric ton by 1622 GMT.

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OIL - Brent and West Texas Intermediate crude climbed more than $1 on Friday after U.S. Energy Secretary Chris Wright said the United States could end Iran's oil exports as part of an effort to bring the Islamic Republic to terms over its nuclear program.

Brent crude futures LCOc1 settled at $64.76 a barrel, up $1.43, or 2.26%.

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PALM OIL - Malaysian palm oil futures reversed earlier losses but booked a second consecutive weekly loss on Friday as it looked for new directions after the release of monthly exports data.

The benchmark June palm oil contract FCPOc3 on the Bursa Malaysia Derivatives Exchange gained 14 ringgit, or 0.33%, to 4,214 ringgit ($953.39) a metric ton at the close.

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RUBBER - Japanese rubber futures eased on Friday, posting weekly losses, amid a widening trade war between the U.S. and top consumer China.

he Osaka Exchange (OSE) September rubber contract JRUc6, 0#2JRU: ended daytime trade 0.17% lower to 297.6 yen ($2.07) per kg.

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