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LONDON, April 5- Gold edged higher on Friday, as the dollar cut earlier gains against the euro and the yen and European shares dropped as investors anticipated potentially weak U.S. non-farm payrolls data. Gold edged up 0.4 percent to $1,558.40 by 1137 GMT, but it was still down about 1.6 percent on the week and heading for its second week of declines.
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LONDON, April 5- Gold edged higher on Friday, as the dollar cut earlier gains against the euro and the yen and European shares dropped as investors anticipated potentially weak U.S. non-farm payrolls data. Gold edged up 0.4 percent to $1,558.40 by 1137 GMT, but it was still down about 1.6 percent on the week and heading for its second week of declines.
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LONDON, April 5- The yen recovered against the dollar on Friday as investors took profit on a steep slide prompted by a surprisingly radical monetary expansion drive from the Bank of Japan.
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*Gov't bonds in Europe gain on talk of Japanese buyers. LONDON, April 5- European shares hit a one-month low on Friday as investors braced for potentially weaker-than-forecast U.S. payrolls data due later, while many of Europe's sovereign bonds jumped on talk of Japanese demand.
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*BOJ pledges to pump $1.4 trillion into economy. LONDON, April 5- The yen recovered against the dollar on Friday as investors and speculators took profit on its slide to a 3-1/ 2 year low on the Bank of Japan's surprisingly radical monetary expansion drive.
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LONDON, April 5- The yen hit a 3-1/ 2 year low against the dollar on Friday, a day after the Bank of Japan's aggressive policy easing, while European shares fell ahead of pivotal U.S. payrolls data due later in the day.
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*BOJ pledges to pump $1.4 trillion into economy. TOKYO, April 5- The yen touched a 3-1/ 2- year low on Friday after suffering its biggest one-day tumble since late 2008 in the previous session, when the Bank of Japan surprised markets with a radical campaign of monetary expansion to attack deflation.
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Dennis Gartman, founder and editor of The Gartman Letter told CNBC that the Bank of Japan is unlikely to reach its targets but that its monetary policy will weaken the currency and strengthen the stock market.
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*Dollar on track to rise toward 100- yen mark. NEW YORK, April 5- The U.S. dollar weakened against most major currencies on Friday, hitting nearly two-week lows against the euro, as weaker-than-expected jobs data raised concerns that the pace of recovery in the American labor market has slowed.
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TOKYO, April 5- Bank of Japan Governor Haruhiko Kuroda played down concerns his unprecedented burst of monetary stimulus would create asset-price bubbles even as it delivered an immediate pay-off in global markets, with government bond yields at a record low, the yen hitting a 3-1/ 2 year trough and stocks surging to multi-year highs.
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Matt Sherwood, Head of Investment Market Research at Perpetual says Japan's market rally could fade if the government does not implement economic reforms.
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Dominic Bunning, Currency Strategist at HSBC tells CNBC's Cash Flow how to trade the majors in the wake of the BoJ's aggressive new easing policy.
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Clay Carter, Head of International Equities at Perennial Investment Partners discusses the BoJ's aggressive new monetary policy.
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George Soros, Founder & Chairman of Soros Fund Management speaks to CNBC about the Bank of Japan's unprecedented stimulus program and how it could potentially work against the economy.
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TOKYO, April 5- The yen slumped to a 3-1/ 2 year low versus the dollar on Friday, after suffering its biggest fall since late 2008 on Thursday, when the Bank of Japan surprised markets with a radical campaign of monetary expansion to attack deflation.
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*MSCI Asia ex- Japan down 0.3 pct. TOKYO, April 5- Japanese equities soared and the yen continued its tumble against the dollar and the euro on Friday after the Bank of Japan's unprecedented monetary expansion, but Asian shares eased ahead of U.S. jobs data amid rising concern over the American economy.
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TOKYO, April 5- Japan's central bank bent global markets to its will on Friday, a day after announcing the world's most intense burst of monetary stimulus, putting the yen into a nose-dive and fuelling a surge in Japanese stocks to 4-1/ 2 year highs.
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Hiroshi Watanabe, President & CEO at Japan Bank for International Cooperation is optimistic on Japan markets with Shinzo Abe at the helm and Haruhiko Kuroda at the BOJ. He expects the inflation rate and wages to rise.
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*MSCI Asia ex- Japan down 0.2 pct. TOKYO, April 5- Asian shares fell on Friday after the Bank of Japan's unprecedented monetary expansion drive prompted a global stock market rally and sank the yen overnight, while some investors turned to impending U.S. jobs data as concerns over the American economy rise.
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Joseph Stiglitz, Professor at Columbia University and 2001 Nobel Prize Winner says he's hopeful that Japanese stimulus will produce a bigger domestic effect than the U.S QE program.