* Rising infections in India rattle energy markets
* Treasury yields little changed ahead of 20-year auction
(Updates prices, changes comment, dateline; previous LONDON)
By Rodrigo Campos
NEW YORK, April 21 (Reuters) - A global stock index edged up
on Wednesday as Wall Street and Europe bounced back from large
drops, while oil prices continued to be weighed by rising
COVID-19 cases in Asia.
Recent optimism about rising vaccination rates in the United
States and Britain is shifting to concern that record
coronavirus infections in India, likely restrictions in Japan
and rising cases in Latin America will act be a hurdle for the
global economic recovery.
Investors are also closely watching an auction of 20-year
U.S. Treasuries later on Wednesday, which will be an important
gauge of global demand for fixed income. Ahead of the auction
results, the yield on benchmark 10-year Treasury notes
US10YT=RR traded at 1.5749%.
The 30-year bond US30YT=RR last fell 8/32 in price to
yield 2.2718%, from 2.26% late on Tuesday.
The move in the Treasury market "is going to be sideways
until we get some data or any sort of catalyst for a move
higher. I think the next catalyst is really going to come from
overseas when you start to see a pick-up in vaccination rates in
Europe," said Subadra Rajappa, head of U.S. rates strategy at
Societe Generale.
On Wall Street, a 7% drop in Netflix NFLX.O weighed on the
Nasdaq but indexes were bouncing back from their largest
declines in a month.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average .DJI rose 167.87 points,
or 0.5%, to 33,989.17, the S&P 500 .SPX gained 21.56 points,
or 0.52%, to 4,156.5 and the Nasdaq Composite .IXIC added
81.60 points, or 0.59%, to 13,867.86.
The pan-European STOXX 600 index .STOXX rose 0.72% and
MSCI's gauge of stocks across the globe .MIWD00000PUS gained
0.17%.
Emerging market stocks lost 0.99%. MSCI's broadest index of
Asia-Pacific shares outside Japan .MIAPJ0000PUS closed 1.04%
lower, while Japan's Nikkei .N225 lost 2.03%.
Oil prices were weighed by concerns that surging COVID-19
cases in India will drive down fuel demand in the world's
third-biggest oil importer.
"Demand jitters were thrust back into the spotlight
yesterday amid a sharp rise in global coronavirus cases. Nowhere
is this more obvious than in India," PVM analysts said.
U.S. crude CLc1 recently fell 1.1% to $61.99 per barrel
and Brent LCOc1 was at $65.97, down 0.9% on the day.
The dollar index =USD fell 0.122%, with the euro EUR=
down 0.01% to $1.2032.
The Japanese yen strengthened 0.02% versus the greenback at
108.07 per dollar, while Sterling GBP= was last trading at
$1.3936, flat on the day.
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