* Wall Street tumbles but closes above session lows
* Bearish earnings tone, growth worries hurts stocks around world
* Global stocks drop for 5 weeks for first time since 2013
* Better-than-expected U.S. GDP data fails to stop sell-off
(Updates to U.S. close)
By Sinéad Carew
NEW YORK, Oct 26 (Reuters) - Stock markets around the world tumbled on Friday while U.S. Treasury prices rose along with demand for safer bets as better-than-expected U.S. economic data did little to ease anxiety over disappointing corporate profits and trade wars.
Wall Street closed above its session lows, but earnings reports from Amazon.com AMZN.O and Alphabet GOOGL.O , issued late Thursday, rekindled a rush to dump technology and other growth sectors. gauge of stocks across the globe .MIWD00000PUS shed 1.19 percent. The global index went 13.7 percent below its Jan. 26 record close and clocked its fifth straight week of consecutive losses for the first time since May 2013.
With equities whip-sawing each day in reaction to the last big earnings beat or miss, investors braced for more volatility through the remainder of the U.S. earnings season and ahead of the Nov. 6 U.S. midterm congressional elections.
"Once the elections and earnings are out of the way we'll have a calmer market but not necessarily a big move up," said Ernesto Ramos, portfolio manager for BMO Global Asset Management in Chicago.
"Investors are anxious about 2019 earnings. They know 2018 is going to be phenomenal." he said. "There's been a lot of panic selling. One of the things you don't want to do is buy or sell based on emotion ... The volatility is incredible."
The Dow Jones Industrial Average .DJI fell 296.24 points, or 1.19 percent, to 24,688.31, the S&P 500 .SPX lost 46.88 points, or 1.73 percent, to 2,658.69 and the Nasdaq Composite .IXIC dropped 151.12 points, or 2.07 percent, to 7,167.21.
There was some support from data that showed third-quarter U.S. economic growth slowing less than expected as a tariff-related drop in soybean exports was partially offset by the strongest consumer spending in nearly four years. while U.S. Treasury yields initially rose after the data, stock market volatility caused them to reverse course and fall to a three-week low. 10-year notes US10YT=RR last rose 15/32 in price to yield 3.0793 percent, from 3.136 percent late on Thursday. U.S. dollar slid alongside stocks after rising to a two-month high in morning trade after the GDP data. dollar index .DXY fell 0.35 percent, with the euro EUR= up 0.28 percent to $1.1406. grew about whether the UK and the European Union can clinch a Brexit deal. Bloomberg, citing people familiar with the matter, reported on Friday that Brexit talks were on hold because Prime Minister Theresa May's cabinet was not close enough to agreement on how to proceed. Japanese yen strengthened 0.52 percent versus the greenback at 111.83 per dollar, while sterling GBP= was last trading at $1.2834, up 0.15 percent on the day.
European and Asian stocks had led the way lower. The pan-European STOXX 600 index .STOXX lost 0.77 percent and MSCI's broadest index of Asia-Pacific shares outside Japan .MIAPJ0000PUS dropped one percent, hitting its lowest level since February 2017.
Bear markets - a price drop of 20 percent or more from recent peaks - have increased across indexes and individual stocks since the start of this year. prices rose on Friday, supported by expectations that sanctions on Iran would tighten global supplies, but futures posted a weekly drop as a slump in stock markets and concerns about trade wars clouded the fuel demand outlook. crude CLcv1 settled at $67.59 per barrel, up 0.4 percent, and Brent LCOcv1 settled up 1 percent to $77.62 on the day.
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