* Euro STOXX 600 up 0.4%
* Wall Street futures up 0.2%
* Investors rotate to beaten-down travel sectors
* German Bund yields hit 2-month high
* NZ dlr touches 19-month high after RBNZ meeting
* Graphic: 2020 asset performance http://tmsnrt.rs/2yaDPgn
* Graphic: World FX rates in 2020 http://tmsnrt.rs/2egbfVh
By Tom Wilson and Tom Westbrook
LONDON/SYDNEY, Nov 11 (Reuters) - Stocks gained and bonds dropped on Wednesday as news of a working COVID-19 vaccine outweighed worries over surging infections, fuelling rotation towards cut-price losers from the coronavirus pandemic such as travel stocks.
The broad Euro STOXX 600 .STOXX climbed 0.4%, adding to a 5% rally this week and adding to 0.1% gains for Asia-Pacific shares outside Japan .MIAPJ0000PUS . Wall Street futures gauges also climbed, with S&P 500 futures ESc1 up 0.3%.
Much of the action was switching between stocks as investors sold coronavirus winners to buy beaten-down equities.
Travel-related stocks .SXTP gained 1.1%, while tech companies .SX8P - which along with U.S. counterparts have surged since the coronavirus-driven crash in March - fell 0.5%.
Bonds also adjusted to the prospect of a post-pandemic world, with the yield on German Bunds DE10YT=RR , a benchmark for euro zone sovereign debt, rising to their highest for two months at -0.456%. yield on benchmark 10-year U.S. Treasuries US10YT=RR posted on Tuesday its highest close since March, though U.S. bond markets are shut on Wednesday. Bond yields rise when prices fall.
"The market is not wrong - we know who benefited during COVID, and it was almost inevitable that if COVID comes to an end, you would have a reversal on that," said Luca Paolini, chief strategist at Pictet Asset Management.
The MSCI world equity index .MIWD00000PUS , which tracks shares in almost 50 countries, gained 0.1%, putting it not far from its record high touched on Monday.
Investors have pivoted to riskier plays in equities, foreign exchange and bonds after Pfizer Inc (NYSE:PFE) PFE.N said on Monday its COVID-19 vaccine candidate, developed with BioNTech BNTX.O , showed a 90% success rate in preventing infection during trials. $2 trillion changed hands on Monday alone, one of the heaviest trading days since the height of the pandemic crisis. Tech stocks, among the major winners in the pandemic, have lost out, as have safe haven currencies like the Japanese yen JPY= . have seen a big rotation which highlighted how skewed positioning was, as people sheltered in the work-from-home plays," said Richard Saldanha, a portfolio manager at Aviva (LON:AV) Investors.
"For names geared towards so-called normalisation of activity, (the rally) could continue to play out in coming days."
Oil futures crept to new two-month highs on a sharp draw-down in supplies and anticipation of better demand in a post-pandemic world. O/R
Brent crude futures LCOc1 climbed more than $1 a barrel to $44.71 a barrel, just below a two-month high touched earlier in the session.
VACCINATE, ROTATE
A rotation of sorts is also underway in fixed income markets, as bonds in Japan, South Korea, Singapore and Thailand fell while riskier bonds in higher-paying countries like Indonesia held gains.
New Zealand bonds crumbled as traders swiftly re-priced a much lower likelihood of negative rates, lifting the 10-year yield NZ10YT=RR by 14.5 basis points to 0.898%, the steepest one-day rise since panic selling in March. NZD/
In currency markets, the kiwi dollar leapt nearly 1% to a 19-month high of $0.6903 after the Reserve Bank of New Zealand kept rates on hold, as expected. euro EUR= paused at $1.1820 ahead of a speech from European Central Bank President Christine Lagarde at 1300 GMT.
The dollar fell 0.2% against the Japanese yen JPY=D3 , though it steadied against a basket of six major currencies =USD , last trading at 92.741.
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