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GLOBAL MARKETS-Stocks push higher, dollar sapped by rate hike uncertainty

Published 2018-11-19, 04:53 a/m
Updated 2018-11-19, 05:00 a/m
© Reuters.  GLOBAL MARKETS-Stocks push higher, dollar sapped by rate hike uncertainty

* European stocks lifted by miners, Wall Street futures up

* Nikkei and China shares firm

* Mixed signals on prospect of Sino-US trade thaw

* Dollar subdued as Fed talks about global risks

* Sterling waits for more Brexit developments

* Oil prices recoup some losses on chance of output cut

* Graphic: The rolling bear market https://tmsnrt.rs/2QCzyvm

* Graphic: World FX rates in 2018 http://tmsnrt.rs/2egbfVh

By Marc Jones

LONDON, Nov 19 (Reuters) - World shares started the week on the front foot on Monday, amid conflicting signals of a potential truce in the China-U.S. trade dispute, while the Federal Reserve's new-found concerns over the global economy sapped the dollar.

Asia took a while to warm up but made a strong finish .T .SS and Europe started well too as a 1 percent jump in mining, tech and bank stocks .SXPP .SX7E .SX8P helped traders .STOXX shrug off last week's Brexit woes. .EU

In the currency market, the pound saw some respite as the dollar went limp. E-Mini futures for the S&P 500 ESc1 also turned higher, having dithered in Asia.

Wall Street had firmed on Friday after U.S. President Donald Trump said that he might not impose more tariffs on Chinese goods after Beijing sent a list of measures it was willing to take to resolve trade tensions.

The comment stoked speculation of a deal when Trump meets Chinese President Xi Jinping on the sidelines of a G20 summit in Argentina this month. Chinese-U.S. tensions were clearly on display at an APEC meeting in Papua New Guinea over the weekend, where leaders failed to agree on a communique for the first time ever.

U.S. Vice President Mike Pence said in a blunt speech that there would be no end to U.S. tariffs on $250 billion of Chinese goods until China changed its ways. comments from Trump were seen as offering a glimmer of hope that further tariff action could be held in abeyance," said NAB's head of FX strategy, Ray Attrill.

"The exchange of barbs between Pence and Chinese President Xi Jinping in PNG on the weekend continues to suggest this is unlikely."

SENSING A FED SHIFT

Also uncertain was the outlook for U.S. interest rates.

Federal Reserve policymakers are still signalling rate increases ahead but also sounded more concerned about a potential global slowdown, leading markets to suspect the tightening cycle may not have much further to run. bank Goldman Sachs (NYSE:GS) chimed in, saying it expected the pace of U.S. economic growth to slow towards the global average next year.

As a result, it now sees a broad dollar decline next year. It revised its long-standing bearish view on the Japanese yen and tipped Latin American currencies, the Swedish krona, the Canadian, Australian and New Zealand dollars and the Israeli shekel to rise.

"We see several changes to the global economic backdrop which, combined with a few negative medium-run factors, point to more downside than upside to the broad dollar in 2019," Goldman analysts said in a macroeconomic outlook report.

That will focus attention on an appearance by New York Fed President John Williams (NYSE:WMB) later on Monday to see if he echoes the same theme.

Investors have already lengthened the odds on further hikes, with a December move now priced at 73 percent, down from over 90 percent. Futures imply rates around 2.74 percent for the end of next year, compared to 2.93 percent early this month. 0#FF:

Yields on U.S. 10-year paper US10YT=RR have duly declined to 3.08 percent, from a recent top of 3.25 percent.

The dollar followed to hover at 96.416 .DXY against a basket of currencies, down from a peak of 97.693. The euro was parked at $1.1417 EUR=D3 , while the dollar backed off to 112.72 yen JPY= .

Sterling edged higher to $1.2854 GBP= after political turmoil over Brexit caused steep losses last week. GBP/

British Prime Minister Theresa May said on Sunday that toppling her would risk delaying Brexit as she faces the possibility of a leadership challenge from within her own party. both pro-EU and pro-Brexit lawmakers unhappy with the draft agreement, it is not clear that she will be able to win the backing of parliament, increasing the risk that Britain will leave the EU without a deal. commodity markets, gold found support from the drop in the dollar and held at $1,1220.19 XAU= .

Oil prices suffered their sixth straight week of losses last week, but have found some support from expectations that the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries will cut output. O/R

Brent crude LCOc1 was up 54 cents at $67.30 a barrel, while U.S. crude gained 70 cents to $57.16 CLc1 .

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