* Graphic: World FX rates in 2017 http://tmsnrt.rs/2egbfVh
* Nerves caused by North Korea missile test ease in Europe
* European stocks claw back ground after morning dip
* Asia shares fall 0.6 pct, South Korean won hits 16-month low
* N. Korea intercontinental missile lands in Japanese waters
* S. Korea won drops, safe-haven yen strengthens
* Oil ends run of gains on US supply drop as traders take profits
* Risk aversion, dollar moderation boosts gold, bonds
By Marc Jones
LONDON, July 4 (Reuters) - World shares pulled back and bonds and gold regained favour on Tuesday as a long-range ballistic missile test by North Korea and July 4 holidays for U.S. markets dampened risk appetite.
Asian shares were pushed lower and South Korea's won KRW= slid to a 16-week low after the North's missile landed in Japanese territorial waters amid assertions from Pyongyang that it could now strike "anywhere in the world". .STOXX saw a modest drop too as the pressure to lock in profit after Monday's biggest jump in over two months outweighed a recovery during the day of commodity stocks as oil thrust upwards again after an overnight wobble. O/R .EU
Traditional safety plays fared well amid the caution.
The Japanese yen JPY=EBS and gold XAU= were both higher, as were European bonds and Treasuries, which have been clobbered by recent signs that the era of emergency stimulus and ultra low interest rates might be coming to an end. ECB's chief economist said healthier inflation remained "crucially contingent" on "very easy" financing conditions, while Sweden's central bank sounded reassuringly cautious even as it hinted at tighter policy going forward, took the wind out of the Swedish crown SEK= EURSEK= , which had been the best performing global currency over the last week. The Australian dollar AUD= also took a tumble as its central bank steered clear of rate hike talk at its latest meeting. Agricole FX strategist Manuel Oliveri said the Swedish Riksbank's move showed how wary central banks remained about their currencies, while the day's other main focus was North Korea's posturing.
"North Korea is continuing to provoke," he said. Although markets were now used to these kind of events, he added: "It is a bit more important as it came ahead of the G20 meeting this week."
Leaders from the Group of 20 nations are due to discuss steps to rein in Pyongyang's weapons programmes when they meet in Germany. President Donald Trump wrote on Twitter: "North Korea has just launched another missile. Does this guy have anything better to do with his life?" This was an apparent reference to North Korean leader Kim Jong Un.
With the market quiet in the absence of U.S. trading, the dollar mainly drifted.
It lost 0.2 percent on the yen to leave it buying 113.19 yen JPY=EBS and dropped 0.5 percent on the Canadian dollar CAD= , but made almost as much back against the Aussie dollar AUD= and Swedish crown SEK= and inched up to $1.1348 to the euro. EUR=EBS
On Monday the six-currency dollar index had seen its biggest jump since the start of March, after a stronger-than-expected rise in the June Institute of Supply Management (ISM) national factory activity index had also propelled the 10-year Treasury yield US10YT=RR to its highest since mid May. US/
EMERGING STRAINS
There were increasing signs that alongside the geopolitical jitters, higher global borrowing rates and the dollar were starting to pressure emerging markets after their stellar start to the year. widely-tracked emerging equity index .MSCIEF saw its sharpest one-day drop in nearly three weeks and most Asian currencies were weaker.
The won is now down 3 percent over the last two weeks, the Indonesian rupiah IDR= has erased weeks of gains in the last two days and the Philippine peso PHP= is stuck near multi-year lows. EMRG/FRX
"The bigger-picture driver for these movements you are seeing in emerging market currencies, at least over the past two weeks, are signs of a more hawkish turn from central banks - including the ECB, Fed and the Bank of England," UniCredit EM FX analyst Kiran Kowshik said.
The next major data point is likely to be Friday's monthly U.S. jobs report. China's central bank, meanwhile, warned on Tuesday that its economy still faces "relatively big" downward pressure and that parts of its financial system lacked sufficient regulation broadest index of Asia-Pacific shares outside Japan .MIAPJ0000PUS ended down 0.6 percent.
Japan's Nikkei .N225 surrendered gains to end 0.1 percent down, South Korea's KOSPI .KS11 closed 0.6 percent lower, though Hong Kong .HSI was hardest hit by the regional jitters as it slumped as much as 2 percent at one point.
Tokyo, reacting to the North's missile test, strongly protested what it called Pyongyang's clear violation of U.N. resolutions. Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said he would ask the presidents of China and Russia to play more constructive roles in efforts to stop Pyongyang's arms programme. markets also saw a shift. Gold XAU= was shining at $1,224 an ounce while oil managed to steady near $50 a barrel although it still looked on course for its first dip in nine sessions which have amounted to its longest run of gains since February 2012.
U.S. crude CLc1 was flat at $47.00 a barrel while global benchmark Brent LCOc1 dropped fractionally to $49.64 as traders cashed in some gains from a 3.7 percent leap - its biggest in one day since December 2016 - on Monday. O/R
"We see a recovery for oil prices in H2 2017 from current levels, with OPEC production cuts, a slowdown in global supply growth and seasonally firming demand driving up prices," BMI Research said. However, it added that "large-volume supply additions will keep price growth flat year-on-year in 2018".
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