GLOBAL MARKETS-Stocks wobble on COVID-19, US election uncertainty; dollar slips

* MSCI global stock gauge edges lower
* S&P, Dow drop, Nasdaq up; Europe stock indexes fall
* U.S. Treasury yields down on stimulus deal doubts
* Oil rises on U.S. Gulf shutdowns

(Updates with afternoon U.S. trading)
By Lewis Krauskopf
NEW YORK, Oct 27 (Reuters) - A gauge of world stock markets
edged lower and the U.S. dollar fell on Tuesday as investors
grappled with a surge in coronavirus cases and uncertainty over
the impending U.S. election.
MSCI's gauge of stocks across the globe .MIWD00000PUS shed
0.14%, as the pan-European STOXX 600 index .STOXX lost 0.95%.
Wall Street's main indexes were mixed in afternoon trading a day
after the S&P 500 .SPX posted its biggest drop in a month,
with the S&P 500 and the Dow industrials .DJI in negative
territory but the tech-heavy Nasdaq .IXIC gaining.
“The factors that helped drive the selloff yesterday - COVID
trends and the election uncertainty - are likely going to
persist this week,” said Keith Lerner, chief market strategist
at Truist/SunTrust Advisory.
“It's a bit of a low conviction tug-of-war until we move
past the election and see what the impact of these COVID numbers
rising are.”
The United States, Russia, France and other countries have
registered record numbers of infections in recent days, and
European governments moved to set new curbs in motion to try to
rein in a fast-growing surge of cases. Ahead of the Nov. 3 U.S. presidential election, former Vice
President Joe Biden leads President Donald Trump in national
opinion polls. But the race is close in key battleground states
that could decide the outcome, and investors had pointed to a
tightening of the election as a factor in Monday's volatility.
On Wall Street, the Dow Jones Industrial Average .DJI fell
143.36 points, or 0.52%, to 27,542.02 the S&P 500 .SPX lost
3.04 points, or 0.09%, to 3,397.93 while the Nasdaq Composite
.IXIC added 67.26 points, or 0.59%, to 11,426.20. Investors also focused on a busy week of corporate earnings.
Caterpillar CAT.N shares fell 3.7% and 3M MMM.N dropped 1.8%
after the two industrial companies' respective earnings reports.
In foreign exchange markets, the dollar index =USD , which
measures the greenback against a basket of currencies, fell
0.272%, with the euro EUR= up 0.17% to $1.1828.
U.S. Treasury yields fell and the yield curve was flatter as
hopes faded for a stimulus deal in Washington to arrive soon.
Euro zone bond yields also dipped. "The market wants some sort of stimulus. It's not getting it
yet," said Eric Jussaume, director of fixed income for Cambridge
Trust.
Benchmark U.S. 10-year notes US10YT=RR last rose 7/32 in
price to yield 0.7793%, from 0.803% late on Monday.
Crude rebounded as companies shut down some U.S. Gulf of
Mexico oil production ahead of an approaching storm, although
surging coronavirus infections and rising Libyan supply limited
gains. U.S. crude CLc1 last rose 2.28% to $39.44 per barrel and
Brent LCOc1 was at $41.15, up 1.71% on the day.

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