* Canadian dollar rises 0.2% against the greenback
* Price of U.S. oil increases 1.5%
* Loonie on track to rise 0.1% for the week
* Gap between 2- and 10-year yields hits narrowest in 5-months
TORONTO, May 24 (Reuters) - The Canadian dollar strengthened against its U.S. counterpart on Friday, recovering from a six-day low the day before as investors dialed back fears of a protracted trade war between the United States and China.
Global stocks .WORLD rose, paring some of the previous day's sharp decline, on cautious optimism after U.S. President Donald Trump predicted a swift end to the tariff war with China. runs a current account deficit and exports many commodities, including oil, so its economy could be hurt by a slowdown in the global flow of capital or trade.
The price of oil rose after two sessions of losses, but remained on track for its biggest weekly drop this year due to rising inventories and concerns about an economic slowdown. U.S. crude oil futures CLc1 were up 1.5% at $58.78 a barrel. 9:08 a.m. (1308 GMT), the Canadian dollar CAD=D4 was trading 0.2% higher at 1.3450 to the greenback, or 74.35 U.S. cents. The currency, which on Wednesday touched its lowest since May 17 at 1.3505, traded in a range of 1.3446 to 1.3481.
For the week, the loonie was on track to rise 0.1%.
The Bank of Canada is done raising interest rates until at least the end of next year, with a serious risk of a cut by then as policymakers become more wary of slowing growth and global trade tensions, a Reuters poll showed on Friday. government bond prices were mixed across a flatter yield curve, with the two-year CA2YT=RR price flat to yield 1.586 percent and the 10-year CA10YT=RR rising 10 Canadian cents to yield 1.631%.
The gap between Canada's 2- and 10-year yields narrowed by 1 basis point to a spread of 4.5 basis points in favor of the longer-dated bond, its narrowest gap since Dec. 11.
Canada's Conservative Party Leader Andrew Scheer on Friday plans to drop a previous pledge to balance the budget within two years if elected, saying Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's Liberal government has made it impossible to do so responsibly.