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*Sony jumps on report of assessing spin-off proposal. TOKYO, May 22- The Nikkei average climbed 1.6 percent to a fresh 5-1/ 2- year high on Wednesday, spurred on by the Bank of Japan's optimism about the economic outlook, while Sony Corp surged on reports it may consider a proposal to spin off its entertainment assets.
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*Sony jumps on report of assessing spin-off proposal. TOKYO, May 22- The Nikkei average climbed 1.6 percent to a fresh 5-1/ 2- year high on Wednesday, spurred on by the Bank of Japan's optimism about the economic outlook, while Sony Corp surged on reports it may consider a proposal to spin off its entertainment assets.
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TOKYO, May 22- The Nikkei average climbed 1.6 percent to a fresh 5-1/ 2- year high on Wednesday, spurred on by the Bank of Japan's optimism about the economic outlook, while Sony Corp surged on reports it may consider a proposal to spin off its entertainment assets.
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TOKYO, May 22- The Bank of Japan kept policy steady on Wednesday despite concerns over recent volatility in bond market, saying growth is starting to pick up even as risks loomed from an uncertain global outlook. BOJ Governor Haruhiko Kuroda will hold a news conference from 0630 GMT with his comments expected to come out any time after 0715 GMT.
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Insight on tomorrow's market action, with Paul Dietrich, Fairfax Global Markets CEO and Brad Friedlander, Angel Oak Capital.
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What could bring the market down, with Rich Peterson, Standard & Poor's Capital IQ and Mike Santoli, Yahoo! Finance.
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Will this be another positive Tuesday for the Dow? CNBC's Josh Lipton reports the market has seen 18 consecutive Tuesdays in the green already.
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POSITIVE SIGNS: Germany's central bank expects the country's economy to improve "markedly" in the second quarter. Germany grew only 0.1 percent in the first quarter in part because cold weather delayed the construction season. The European Central Bank expects a gradual recovery in the second half of the year.
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The S&P 500 is up 17 percent since the beginning of 2013, but how will the market react when we hear from the Fed on Wednesday? Craig Hodges, Hodges Small Cap Fund shares his opinions.
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LONDON, May 21- Gold, down in seven of its last eight sessions extended earlier losses on Tuesday on a firm dollar, weak technical signals and speculation that the U.S. Gold has been hit by a shift in investment into higher-yielding equities since the start of the year on signs of an improving global economic outlook, particularly in the United States.
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*Home Depot raises outlook, shares jump. *Goldman Sachs sees S&P 500 at 1,750 by year-end. "Given there's not a lot of economic news coming out today, it looks like we're set up for a pretty' nothing' day," said Kim Forrest, senior equity research analyst at Fort Pitt Capital Group in Pittsburgh.
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LONDON, May 21- Copper rose on Tuesday as investors remained confident about the U.S. economic recovery and kept an eye on a protracted production outage in Indonesia, though gains were capped by disappointing import numbers from top consumer China.
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*Home Depot raises outlook, shares jump. *JPMorgan shareholders to decide on Dimon's chairmanship. *The housing market recovery helped Home Depot report higher quarterly sales and earnings, prompting the world's largest home improvement chain to boost its sales outlook for the year.
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LONDON, May 21- Gold, down in seven of its last eight sessions, was off by around one percent on Tuesday morning on a firm dollar, weak technical signals and speculation that the U.S. Gold has been hit by a shift in investment into higher-yielding equities since the start of the year on signs of an improving global economic outlook, particularly in the United States.
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LONDON, May 21- Copper slipped on Tuesday as traders grew nervous ahead of a slew of factory data this week and as they focused on disappointing import numbers from top consumer China, though losses were capped by confidence in the U.S. economy.
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*Japan draft report warns "no guarantee" domestic investors will keep buying JGBs. But at the same time, he is trying to convince investors that over the longer term Japan will tackle a public debt that, at more than twice the nation's annual economic output, is the biggest in the developed world.
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What to watch in tomorrow's market, with Chad Morganlander, Stifel Nicolaus and Jim Herrell, Partnervest Asset Management.
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How to protect your portfolio for a potential market correction, with Robert Luna, SureVest Capital Management and Mark Travis, Intrepid Capital Funds.
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*Japan's reflationary policy helps domestic demand. TOKYO, May 20- Nippon Steel and Sumitomo Metal Corp expects its domestic crude steel output to rise 2 percent in the April-June quarter, as Japan's reflationary policy drives the yen lower and makes the country's goods more competitive.
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LONDON, May 20- Low-risk German Bunds fell on Monday in the wake of upbeat U.S. data last week that eased concern about growth in the world's biggest economy, but a bleak euro zone outlook was expected to limit losses.
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Jim O'Sullivan, High Frequency Economics; and Diane Swonk, Mesirow Financial, discuss the likelihood of the Fed tapering its bond-buying program anytime soon.