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US shares are set to close down, with investors wary of weekend geopolitical developments. Iron ore falls. Oil reaches for $US93 a barrel. Gold extends rally.

US shares were set to end the final session of the week lower, with investors wary of being caught by any potential weekend developments inTesla -3% Apple -0.7% Amazon -1.8%The local currency slipped lower; the Bloomberg dollar spot index was down 0.2 per cent.

The yield on the US 10-year note was 7 basis points lower to 4.92 per cent at 1.07pm in New York. The two-year was at 5.08 per cent; the 30-year at 5.07 pe rcent.After being spurred to the highest levels since at least 2007 this week, most US government bond yields were lower.took Federal Reserve policymakers to task, saying the US economy is seeing a period of “greater uncertainty” because of a lack of vision from Fed officials.

“That is not how you drive policy and it’s certainly not how you drive policy when the impact of policy happens with a lag,” he said. “This is the first Fed I know that has not gotten it.”said the Fed could done lifting rates. “Fed commentary has all but confirmed that the Fed will stay on hold in November. We shift the last rate hike in our forecast out to December. We think the strong September data keep another hike in play. But it is a close call.

“We’re at the very lower end of this upper trending price channel — it’s going to take a lot to break through that level,” Johnson, senior technical research analyst for the firm, said in an interview. “When you’re this oversold, you’re back to the end of the channel. One doesn’t get hurt falling out of a basement window.”said the S&P 500 “looks unlikely to break 4200 right away, and recent selling pressure should represent an attractive risk/reward opportunity for US risk assets”.

 

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