* Euro hits six-month peak against dollar before falling
* Copper drops to four-month low as Chinese imports slide (Updates prices, comment)
By Rodrigo Campos
NEW YORK, May 8 (Reuters) - Stocks were little changed and the euro fell on Monday from highs it touched after pro-EU centrist Emmanuel Macron's emphatic and expected victory in France's presidential election as investors cashed in recent gains.
European equities dipped, with French shares underperforming the wider market after having hit their highest in more than 9 years on Friday.
The euro fell the most against the dollar since late March, having risen in overnight trade to just above $1.10 when opinion polls signaled the scale of Macron's victory over anti-euro nationalist Marine Le Pen.
On Wall Street, the S&P 500 touched a record high before turning slightly negative.
"The (French election) results came in as expected and the market had already factored that in," said Andre Bakhos, managing director at Janlyn Capital in Bernardsville, New Jersey.
World stocks, as measured by MSCI's 46-country world index .MIWD00000PUS hit a record high and the main measure of Asia-Pacific shares excluding Japan .MIAPJ0000PUS rose 0.8 percent.
Shares resumed trading in Tokyo after a three-day market holiday. The Nikkei .N225 closed up 2.3 percent at a 17-month high. Dow Jones Industrial Average .DJI fell 2.45 points, or 0.01 percent, to 21,004.49, the S&P 500 .SPX lost 1.13 points, or 0.05 percent, to 2,398.16 and the Nasdaq Composite .IXIC dropped 4.76 points, or 0.08 percent, to 6,096.00. pan-European STOXX 600 index .STOXX lost 0.13 percent while France's CAC 40 index .FCHI fell 0.9 percent. market stocks .MSCIEF rose 0.54 percent. MSCI's broadest index of Asia-Pacific shares outside Japan .MIAPJ0000PUS closed 0.77 percent higher.
In currency markets, the dollar index .DXY rose 0.46 percent, with the euro EUR= down 0.63 percent to $1.0926. The euro earlier touched a six-month high of $1.1024. Japanese yen weakened 0.33 percent versus the greenback at 113.11 per dollar, while sterling GBP= was last trading at $1.2937, down 0.32 percent on the day.
""A Macron win is largely priced into the euro," said Shaun Osborne, chief FX strategist at Scotiabank in Toronto. "Heavy trading in the spot market so far today suggests a modest unwind of the April and May rally is coming, at least."
Oil prices, which hit almost six-month lows last week on worries about a global glut of crude, edged up after OPEC hinted there could be an extension to the current production cuts, which expire in June. crude CLcv1 rose 0.45 percent to $46.43 per barrel and Brent LCOcv1 was last at $49.36, up 0.53 percent on the day.
U.S. Treasury yields rose, the benchmark yield at a four-week high in advance of the sale of $62 billion in bond supply at this week's quarterly refunding and following Macron's victory. 10-year U.S. Treasury notes US10YT=RR were last fell 8/32 in price to yield 2.3813 percent, from 2.352 percent late on Friday.
Spot gold XAU= was virtually flat at $1,227.60 an ounce. U.S. gold futures GCcv1 gained 0.07 percent to $1,227.70 an ounce.
Copper CMCU3 lost 1.77 percent to $5,486.15 a tonne as Chinese trade data showed April imports of the metal dived 30 percent from March.