GLOBAL MARKETS-Stocks slip, dollar rebounds on trade hopes stir sentiment

Published 21/11/2019, 22:26
Updated 21/11/2019, 22:27
© Reuters.  GLOBAL MARKETS-Stocks slip, dollar rebounds on trade hopes stir sentiment

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* Dollar rebounds, Wall Street fails to rise above

break-even

* Germany's trade sensitive DAX closes little changed

* Oil gains on Reuters report OPEC likely to extend output

By Herbert Lash

NEW YORK, Nov 21 (Reuters) - The dollar rebounded and global

equity markets edged lower on Thursday as efforts by China to

smooth the path forward in U.S.-Sino trade talks helped sooth

investor sentiment, though fears remained that a phase one deal

might not occur until next year.

Oil prices rose to a two-month high after Reuters reported

the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries and its

allies are likely to extend existing output cuts until mid-2020.

Yields on government debt rose, snapping three sessions of

declines, bolstered by China saying it was willing to work with

the United States to resolve core trade concerns, which

rekindled some hope for a bilateral deal. A Wall Street Journal report that said China had invited top

U.S. trade negotiators for a new round of face-to-face talks in

Beijing also lifted sentiment. Germany's trade-sensitive DAX index .GDAXI pared most

losses to close 0.16% lower, while the Dow Industrials and S&P

500 index also pared early losses to briefly trade above

break-even, before closing lower.

"This just shows that the trade deal is not dead and that we

will get some sort of an extended truce, which is a positive,"

said Peter Cardillo, chief market economist at Spartan Capital

Securities in New York.

"What we're going through now is a market beginning to

realize the daily rhetoric of the trade news – one day positive,

one day negative – is beginning to wear off," he said.

MSCI's gauge of stocks across the globe .MIWD00000PUS shed

0.3%, while the pan-European STOXX 600 index .STOXX lost

0.40%.

On Wall Street, the Dow Jones Industrial Average .DJI fell

54.8 points, or 0.2%, to 27,766.29. The S&P 500 .SPX lost 4.92

points, or 0.16%, to 3,103.54 and the Nasdaq Composite .IXIC

dropped 20.52 points, or 0.24%, to 8,506.21.

The latest news on the trade deal came after headlines

earlier this week suggested ongoing talks were unraveling.

Reuters reported on Wednesday that negotiations to finalize

a deal may extend into next year as Beijing presses for more

extensive tariff rollbacks and the Trump administration counters

with heightened demands of its own. The yield of benchmark German and U.S. bonds ended a

three-day streak of declines to edge higher.

German 10-year bond yields, considered a euro zone

benchmark, rose more than 2 basis points to -0.325%.

The benchmark 10-year U.S. Treasury note US10YT=RR fell

9/32 in price to push yields up to 1.7688%.

The dollar firmed late in the session.

"Right now the dollar is very trade headline dependent,"

said Alfonso Esparza, senior currency analyst at OANDA in

Toronto.

The dollar index .DXY rose 0.04%, with the euro EUR=

down 0.12% to $1.1059. The Japanese yen JPY= strengthened

0.02% versus the greenback at 108.60 per dollar.

Brent crude LCOc1 settled up $1.57 at $63.97 a barrel,

while West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude CLc1 gained $1.57 to

settle at $58.58 a barrel.

Both benchmarks had fallen earlier in the session.

Gold prices eased. U.S. gold futures Gcv1 fell 0.7% to

settle at $1,463.60 per ounce.

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