Seoul stocks fell almost 1 percent on Tuesday, led by a decline in key exporters such as Hyundai Motor on concerns about the impact of a strong won, and as investors traded cautiously ahead of

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Here is how major stock markets outside the United States ended on Tuesday. EUROPE STOCK EXCHANGE: European stocks extended their march to new multi-year highs, led by mining shares, while Swiss chemical group Ciba fell

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Britain's blue chip share index scored its biggest point gain in four months and touched a 2-1/2 year high on Tuesday, boosted by higher oils and miners and a fresh bout of bid talk that

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EU ministers face an agonising choice over whether to let national sugar industries collapse, due to plans to change the production quota system, Europe's leading farmers' union said on Tuesday. So far the EU's long-debated

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Gold producers planning to cash in on the rising price for their precious metal will further reduce forward selling commitments in 2005, but the pace will slow, analysts said. Miners cut back their hedge books

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Oil prices slumped more than $1 on Tuesday as dealers anticipated another increase in US crude stockpiles, countering lingering fears Opec may slash output in the first quarter. US light crude futures fell $1.08 to

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London white sugar futures closed lower on trade and speculator profit taking on Tuesday, and traders said the market risked further falls. March settled down $5.20 at $264.3 in volume of 6,422 lots, having moved

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Tuesday's Rotterdam vegetable oil prices at 1700 GMT. SOYOIL: EU degummed euro tonne fob ex-mill February 2005 380.00 March 2005/April 2005 380.00 May 2005/July 2005 377.00 -3.00 August 2005/October 2005 375.00 -5.00. RAPEOIL: Dutch/EU euro

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Tuesday's Rotterdam vegetable oil prices at 1700 GMT. SOYOIL: EU degummed euro tonne fob ex-mill February 2005 380.00 March 2005/April 2005 380.00 May 2005/July 2005 377.00 -3.00 August 2005/October 2005 375.00 -5.00. RAPEOIL: Dutch/EU euro

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Cotton futures ended marginally higher Tuesday on modest speculative buying and the market is seen drifting along due to a dearth of news to give it direction on its next move, analysts said. The New

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