* Weaker U.S. stock prices spur modest sales of dollar
* Sterling rebounds after Haldane's rate-hike remarks
* Falling oil prices pressure commodity-linked currencies
* Investors await Reserve Bank of New Zealand rate decision (Updates market action, adds quote)
By Richard Leong
NEW YORK, June 21 (Reuters) - The dollar slipped on Wednesday from a one-month peak against a basket of currencies on Wednesday, as losses on Wall Street stocks spurred some traders to book profits on gains tied to expectations of possibly another U.S. interest rate increase later this year.
Sterling rose after the Bank of England's chief economist, Andy Haldane, said he expected to back a British rate increase this year. The currency sagged on Tuesday after BoE Governor Mark Carney said now was not the time to raise UK interest rates after three policymakers had voted in favor of a hike last week. GBP/
Commodity-linked currencies such as the Canadian dollar CAD=D4 and the Australian dollar AUD=D4 fell in step with lower oil prices.
"It's a bit of a pushback from the equity space," Jason Leinwand, founder of FirstLine FX Currency Strategy in Randolph, New Jersey, said of the weaker dollar. "The market is still digesting what (Fed Chair) Yellen said."
A week ago, the U.S. central bank, as expected, raised key borrowing costs by a quarter point to 1.00-1.25 percent, while Yellen at her news conference downplayed recent signs of inflation softening. dollar index .DXY was down 0.2 percent at 97.541, below a one-month high of 97.871 reached on Tuesday.
The Dow and S&P 500 were modestly lower, while the Nasdaq recovered from recent losses. major currencies, the pound was the biggest gainer against the greenback following Haldane's hawkish view, which ran counter to his perceived dovish reputation.
"If his opinion is shifting, then that is potentially significant news for rates going forward," said Adam Cole, head of FX strategy at RBC Capital Markets in London.
Investors were also closely watching political developments in Britain, with Prime Minister Theresa May's Conservative Party still in talks with Northern Ireland's Democratic Unionists Party (DUP) to form a government. was down as much as 0.6 percent based on Tuesday's close in New York before halving that decline, which brought it to $1.2668 GBP=D3 . global benchmark oil prices LCOc1 touched seven-month lows on Wednesday on worries about oversupply. That put downward pressure on currencies whose economies are reliant on oil and commodity exports. Canadian dollar traded at C$1.3313 per dollar CAD=D4 , down 0.4 percent from late on Tuesday.
The Aussie AUD=D4 was down 0.3 percent at $0.7558, and the New Zealand dollar NZD=D4 slipped 0.1 percent to $0.7231.
Investors await a rate decision from the Reserve Bank of New Zealand due later on Wednesday. Analysts expected the RBNZ to leave rates at a record low of 1.75 percent. ========================================================
Currency bid prices at 3:31PM (1931 GMT) Description
RIC
Last
U.S. Close Pct
YTD Pct
Previous Change
Change
Session
Euro/Dollar
$1.1165
$1.1134
+0.28% +6.20% Dollar/Yen
111.3200
111.4200
-0.09% -4.75% Euro/Yen
EURJPY=
124.30
124.09
+0.17% +0.94% Dollar/Swiss
CHF=
0.9724
0.9750
-0.27% -4.46% Sterling/Dollar GBP=
1.2668
1.2629
+0.31% +2.69% Dollar/Canadian CAD=
1.3311
1.3264
+0.35% -0.89% Australian/Doll AUD=
0.7556
0.7579
-0.30% +4.73% ar
Euro/Swiss
EURCHF=
1.0857
1.0855
+0.02% +1.31% Euro/Sterling
EURGBP=
0.8812
0.8813
-0.01% +3.45% NZ
NZD=
0.7226
0.7239
-0.18% +4.11% Dollar/Dollar
Dollar/Norway
8.5292
8.5436
-0.17% -1.25% Euro/Norway
EURNOK=
9.5227
9.5090
+0.14% +4.81% Dollar/Sweden
SEK=
8.7451
8.7810
-0.15% -3.98% Euro/Sweden
EURSEK=
9.7640
9.7784
-0.15% +1.92%
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