* Graphic: World FX rates in 2018 http://tmsnrt.rs/2egbfVh
* Wall Street falls on weak quarterly reports,
* Bearish tone to earnings hurts European stocks
* MSCI ACWI set for longest weekly run of losses since 2013
* Better than expected U.S. GDP data fails to stop sell-off
By Sinéad Carew
NEW YORK, Oct 26 (Reuters) - Stock markets around the world fell on Friday on track for their longest weekly losing streak since 2013 while U.S. Treasury prices rose along with demand for safer bets as better than expected U.S. economic data did little to assuage anxiety over disappointing corporate profits and trade wars.
Wall Street plunged after earnings reports from Amazon.com AMZN.O and Alphabet GOOGL.O rekindled a rush to dump technology and high-growth stocks. Both stocks had risen sharply on Thursday in advance of their earnings. .N
European and Asian stocks led the way lower. The pan-European STOXX 600 index .STOXX lost 1.26 percent and MSCI's gauge of stocks across the globe .MIWD00000PUS shed 1.40 percent.
The global index was more than 14 percent below its record closing high reached on Jan. 26 and was set for its fifth straight week of losses, which had not happened since May 2013.
Markets had only a temporary reprieve after data 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. U.S Treasury yields initially rose after the data, stock market volatility caused them to reverse course and fall to a three-week low of 3.074 percent as stocks dropped.
"Yields are down today not because of the GDP report but because of stock market volatility. It's a global flight to safety," Collin Martin, fixed income director at the Schwab Center for financial research, in New York.
"Overall the (GDP) number beat expectations," he added, but "when you dig a little deeper there were some pros and cons."
Benchmark 10-year notes US10YT=RR last rose 16/32 in price to yield 3.0774 percent, from 3.136 percent late on Thursday.
The U.S. dollar slid alongside stocks after having risen to a two-month high in morning trade after the GDP data. Dow Jones Industrial Average .DJI fell 339.24 points, or 1.36 percent, to 24,645.31, the S&P 500 .SPX lost 48.88 points, or 1.81 percent, to 2,656.69 and the Nasdaq Composite .IXIC dropped 165.65 points, or 2.26 percent, to 7,152.68.
The U.S. dollar .DXY rose against a basket of major currencies after the U.S. data.
The dollar index .DXY fell 0.17 percent, with the euro EUR= up 0.07 percent to $1.1382. a strong greenback benefits U.S. assets, it also raises the cost of imports and exports, which hurts growth. The net effect tends to be neutral.
"Unless you are willing and able to push down your currency at the same time that you're erecting your tariffs, the currency move is going to offset the tariffs," said Greg Anderson, global head of FX strategy at BMO Capital Markets
The Japanese yen strengthened 0.75 percent versus the greenback at 111.57 per dollar, while sterling GBP= was last trading at $1.2832, up 0.13 percent on the day.
Doubt 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. GBP/
MSCI's broadest index of Asia-Pacific shares outside Japan .MIAPJ0000PUS dropped one percent, erasing gains made in the opening hour and 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 were headed for a third weekly loss after Saudi Arabia warned of oversupply and the slump in stock markets and concern about trade clouded the outlook for fuel demand. O/R
U.S. crude CLcv1 rose 0.01 percent to $67.34 per barrel and Brent LCOcv1 was last up 0.4 percent to $77.22 on the day.
Spot gold XAU= added 0.7 percent to $1,239.95 an ounce. GOL/