* Asian shares ease, U.S. stock futures down over half a percent
* China, auto shares take brunt of trade tensions
* European shares fall 1 pct
* Oil prices drop by 2 pct as traders factor in OPEC output rise
* Turkish lira rises more than 1 pct after Erdogan victory
By Ritvik Carvalho
LONDON, June 25 (Reuters) - World stocks sank on Monday, hit by worries over a worsening trade dispute between the United States and other leading economies, while crude oil prices fell by over two percent as traders factored in an output rise agreed by major exporters.
The Wall Street Journal said U.S. President Donald Trump planned to bar many Chinese companies from investing in U.S. technology firms and block additional technology exports to China. report hit Asian stocks overnight and in London the pan-European STOXX 600 .STOXX index was down by one percent by afternoon trade in London.
S&P500 mini futures ESc1 fell as much as 0.6 percent while MSCI's broadest index of Asia-Pacific shares outside Japan .MIAPJ0000PUS fell by one percent to 6-1/2-month lows. Japan's Nikkei .N225 lost 0.8 percent.
Taking a particular hit on the trade tensions was the European autos sector .SXAP , falling 1.9 percent and set for its seventh straight day of losses after Trump said on Friday he aimed to hike tariffs on EU car imports by 20 percent.
MSCI's All-Country World index .MIWD00000PUS , which tracks shares in 47 countries, was down 0.3 percent.
As the threat of a full-blown trade war has grown, the gauge has fallen in five of the last six weeks. Last week it fell one percent - its biggest weekly drop in three months.
"We suspect the Trump team will push ahead with these policies (which will elicit reciprocal tariffs from China and the EU) until U.S. equities start to crumble and polls move against Trump," ING strategists wrote in a research note.
A spread between approval and disapproval ratings of the U.S. President had reached its narrowest since March 2017, they noted.
Chinese shares .MICN00000PUS were among the biggest losers, falling 1.27 percent and tumbling 3.7 percent last week, as Trump threatened to hit $200 billion of Chinese imports with 10 percent tariffs.
Policymakers in China moved fast to temper any potential economic drag from the dispute, as its central bank said on Sunday it would cut the amount of cash some banks must hold as reserves by 50 basis points. reduction in reserve requirements, the third this year, had been widely anticipated by investors and is aimed at accelerating the pace of debt-for-equity swaps and spurring lending for smaller firms.
Despite the move, the CSI300 Index .CSI300 of mainland Chinese shares lost 0.8 percent, edging near the one-year low it touched on Friday.
Beijing has begun downplaying Made in China 2025, the state-backed industrial policy that has provoked alarm in the West and is core to Washington's complaints about the country's technological ambitions, diplomatic and Chinese state media sources said. index of global auto manufacturers .MIWO0AC00PUS fell 0.7 percent. It lost 4.7 percent last week.
Trump threatened to impose a 20 percent tariff on Friday on all imports of EU-assembled cars, a month after his administration launched an investigation into whether auto imports posed a national security threat. senior European Commission official said on Saturday that
the European Union would respond to any U.S. move to raise tariffs on cars made in the bloc.
SLIPPERY OIL
Oil shed some of the gains posted on Friday after OPEC and non-OPEC producers agreed a modest increase in production from next month.
They did not however announce a clear target for the output hike, leaving traders guessing how much more will actually be pumped. and non-OPEC said in a statement they would raise supply by returning to 100 percent compliance with previously agreed output cuts, after months of underproduction.
"Saturday's OPEC+ press conference provided more clarity on the decision to increase production, with guidance for a full 1 million bpd ramp-up in 2H18," Goldman Sachs (NYSE:GS) said in a note on Sunday.
"This is a larger increase than presented Friday although the goal remains to stabilize inventories, not generate a surplus."
U.S. crude futures traded at $68.79 per barrel CLc1 , down 0.3 percent for the day after Friday's 4.6 percent rally.
International benchmark Brent LCOc1 fell 1.5 percent, however, to $74.41 per barrel, giving up nearly half of its gains made on Friday.
In the currency market the euro rose, up 0.2 percent at $1.1678. EUR=D4
German business confidence deteriorated in June, a survey showed on Monday, suggesting the mood among company executives in Europe's biggest economy was darkening in light of the threat of a global trade war. dollar fell 0.4 percent to 109.60 yen JPY= , earlier hitting its lowest levels in two weeks as the Japanese currency firmed on concerns about the global trade frictions.
The Turkish lira gained up to 1.6 percent on expectations of a stable government after Tayyip Erdogan and his ruling AK Party claimed victory in presidential and parliamentary polls. his victory kept alive worries about inflation and the central bank's independence given recent comments suggesting he wanted to take greater control of monetary policy.
The lira traded at 4.68 to the dollar TRYTOM=D3 , up 1.7 percent from 4.6625 at the end of last week.
Bitcoin steadied after hitting seven-month lows during the weekend as the security of cryptocurrency exchange operators came under more scrutiny. The digital currency fell as low as $5,780 overnight and last stood at $6,209.63 BTC=BTSP .
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