(Adds Wall St turning higher, oil surrendering gains and late
prices)
* Dollar gains on Fed rate hike hopes, data
* U.S. Treasury short-term yields rise
* Wall St turns up in late trading
* Dollar pushes commodities to near six-year lows
By Michael Connor
NEW YORK, July 30 (Reuters) - The dollar touched one-week
highs and shorter-term U.S. Treasury yields rose on Thursday as
accelerating U.S. gross domestic product data encouraged bets
policymakers will start hiking U.S. interest rates as soon as
September.
Wall Street ended mostly higher but gains were muted by soft
corporate earnings. Oil prices surrendered early increases and
declined under the weight of the rising dollar.
The euro fell 0.50 percent against the dollar to $1.0928,
which helped the dollar index .DXY rise 0.55 percent at 97.496
after touching 97.773, its highest since July 22.
"The latest GDP report confirms the Fed's narrative that
the first-quarter weakness was transitory," said Ian Gordon, G10
currency strategist at Bank of America Merrill Lynch (NYSE:BAC) in New
York. "The bar for them to hiking rates is not very high."
Data showed economic growth in the United States accelerated
in the second quarter, backed by solid consumer demand, to a 2.3
percent annual rate. While short of economists' expectations for
2.6 percent growth, the data still pointed to firming domestic
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The U.S. Federal Reserve on Wednesday described the economy
as expanding "moderately," with improvements in housing and the
labor market. That left the door open for a hike in interest
rates in September, which would be the first rise since 2006.
Treasury prices, which move in the opposite direction of
yields, were mostly off. Price declines were largest in 3-year
and 5-year maturities, while benchmark 10-year Treasuries
US10YT=RR were last up 2/32 of a point in price, pushing the
yield to 2.2697 percent.
Wall Street's main indexes were mixed. The Dow Jones
industrial average .DJI finished down 5.01 points, or 0.03
percent, to 17,746.38, the S&P 500 .SPX rose 0.15 points, or
0.01 percent, to 2,108.72 and the Nasdaq Composite .IXIC added
17.05 points, or 0.33 percent, to 5,128.79
Procter & Gamble PG.N , Facebook FB.O and Whole Foods
Market WFM.O all fell after quarterly reports that left
investors wanting more.
Europe's main stock markets gained for a third day as
results from Siemens SIEGn.DE , Nokia NOK1V.HE and Deutsche
Bank DBKGn.DE and a rise in euro zone-wide sentiment boosted
sentiment. ECONG7 .EU The pan-European FTSEurofirst 300
.FTEU3 closed up 0.6 percent.
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Global assets in 2015: http://link.reuters.com/dub25t
European bourses in 2015 http://link.reuters.com/pap87v
Currencies vs dollar: http://link.reuters.com/tak27s
World interest rates: http://link.reuters.com/xyb96s
Oil prices: http://link.reuters.com/beb23v
Commodities performance: http://link.reuters.com/rac73w
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With the dollar flexing its muscles again, commodity markets
were back under pressure, with copper CMCU3 , considered a
bellwether for global economic activity, trading very near a
six-year low at $5,259 a tonne. MET/L
The broad Thomson Reuters CRB commodities index .TRJCRB
hit a fresh six-year low before recovering some ground. Gold
flirted with a 5-1/2-year low at $1,088 an ounce as its appeal
ahead of potentially higher global interest rates remained in
question.
Oil prices, smarting from rising U.S. shale oil output and
an easing of sanctions on Iran, posted early gains after an
unexpectedly large weekly drawdown in U.S. crude inventories but
finished off because of the stronger dollar. O/R
Brent LCOc1 settled down 7 cents, or 0.1 percent, at
$53.31 a barrel, while U.S. crude CLc1 closed lower by 27
cents, or 0.6 percent, at $48.52.