(In 8th paragraph, corrects quote to say "didn't," not "did")
* Dollar enters sixth session of selling
* EM stocks extend gains on dollar fall
* Manafort conviction and Cohen guilty plea add uncertainty
By Herbert Lash
NEW YORK, Aug 22 (Reuters) - Key U.S. government debt yields slid to six-week lows on a flight to safety bid and the dollar slid further on Wednesday as investors weighed how a conviction and a guilty plea of former advisers will impact U.S. President Donald Trump.
A gauge of global equities rose, lifted by higher energy prices and strong earnings from retailers, in a session that marked the longest U.S. bull market. The milestone came a day after the S&P 500 stock index set an all-time intraday high.
Markets barely budged after the release of minutes from the Federal Reserve's policy meeting that ended Aug. 1. traders priced in a slightly higher chance that the Fed will increase rates two more times this year. are just trying to gauge if there has been any shift in sentiment at the Fed and it certainly doesn't seem that way at the moment," said Gennadiy Goldberg, an interest rate strategist at TD Securities in New York.
The White House pushed back forcefully against suggestions a plea deal struck on Tuesday by Trump's former lawyer, Michael Cohen, implicated the president in a crime. was not charged and Cohen's plea deal does not mean the president has been implicated in anything, press secretary Sarah Sanders said at a White House briefing.
Cohen pleaded guilty to charges of tax evasion, bank fraud and campaign finance violations, while Trump's former campaign chairman, Paul Manafort, was convicted on eight charges.
"The potential for President Trump to be impeached didn't change all that much and as a result of that the market didn't over react in this instance to that news," said Michael Arone, chief investment strategist at State Street Global Advisors in Boston.
Equity investors appeared less concerned about Trump as Wall Street marked what is widely considered a bull market that started in the midst of the global financial crisis a decade ago that wiped out more than half of the U.S. stock market's value.
The benchmark S&P 500 index has more than quadrupled since the lows of March 2009. Street was mixed, with the S&P and Nasdaq trading higher but the Dow industrials lower on a slide in shares of industrials, consumer discretionary and staples. in Europe trended slightly higher, with the blue-chip FTSE 100 .FTSE gaining 0.11 percent while the pan-European FTSEurofirst 300 index .FTEU3 closed flat. MSCI's gauge of stocks across the globe .MIWD00000PUS gained 0.29 percent and emerging market stocks .MSCIEF rose 0.70 percent.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average .DJI fell 62.1 points, or 0.24 percent, to 25,760.19. The S&P 500 .SPX gained 1.56 points, or 0.05 percent, to 2,864.52 and the Nasdaq Composite .IXIC added 37.08 points, or 0.47 percent, to 7,896.25.
The dollar index .DXY fell 0.18 percent and the euro EUR= rose 0.25 percent to $1.1598. The Japanese yen JPY= weakened 0.23 percent versus the greenback at 110.58 per dollar. U.S. Treasury 10-year notes US10YT=RR rose 6/32 in price to yield 2.8207 percent. prices rose more than 2 percent, with Brent hitting a two-week high, after U.S. government data showed a larger-than-expected draw in domestic crude inventories and as Washington's sanctions on Iran signaled tightening supplies. crude LCOc1 , the international benchmark, rose $2.15 to settle at $74.78 a barrel. U.S. crude CLc1 settled up $2.02 at $67.86.
Oil also found support from the weaker dollar, which makes oil less expensive for buyers using other currencies.
U.S. gold futures GCcv1 for December delivery settled up $3.30 at $1,203.30 per ounce.
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https://reut.rs/2LkECRE MSCI EM market cap Aug 22
https://reut.rs/2OX0u7R GRAPHIC-Global assets in 2018
http://tmsnrt.rs/2jvdmXl GRAPHIC-Emerging markets in 2018
http://tmsnrt.rs/2ihRugV GRAPHIC-World FX rates in 2018
http://tmsnrt.rs/2egbfVh GRAPHIC-MSCI All Country World Index Market Cap
http://tmsnrt.rs/2EmTD6j Interactive graphic: The long bull run in context
http://graphics.thomsonreuters.com/testfiles/bull-run/
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