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GLOBAL MARKETS-U.S. dollar gains, yields dip as G7 summit in focus

Published 09/06/2018, 07:28 am
Updated 09/06/2018, 07:30 am
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* U.S. stocks rise; investors eye Fed decision

* Prospect of ECB soon winding down stimulus to add to volatility

* Crude oil prices fall (Updates with closing U.S. markets levels)

By Caroline Valetkevitch

NEW YORK, June 8 (Reuters) - The U.S. dollar rose and Treasury yields slipped on Friday on anxiety about a potential global trade war as the leaders of the Group of Seven countries met in Canada.

U.S. stocks ended higher though thanks mostly to gains in health care .SPXHC and consumer staples stocks .SPLRCS .

G7 leaders met in Quebec Friday with the U.S.'s trading partners furious over President Donald Trump's decision last week to impose tariffs on steel and aluminum imports from allies like Canada, the European Union, and Mexico. With retaliation already being proposed, the risk to business confidence is a worry for investors. are so many questions out there," said Thomas Roth, head of Treasury trading at MUFG Securities America in New York. "There's nervousness about the G7 summit and Trump's North Korea meeting."

An unprecedented U.S.-North Korea summit is also scheduled for June 12 in Singapore, with Washington seeking to pressure Pyongyang into abandoning its nuclear weapons program. for another interest rate rise in the United States at next Wednesday's Federal Reserve policy meeting, and the prospect that the European Central Bank will soon signal a winding-down of its massive monetary stimulus could add to market volatility next week, investors said. late trading, the U.S. dollar rose 0.2 percent against a basket of currencies .DXY to 93.56, but fell 0.7 percent for the week, its steepest weekly fall in 10 weeks. the yen, however, the dollar was last down 0.2 percent at 109.45 JPY= .

The yield on benchmark 10-year Treasury notes US10YT=RR was 2.926 percent, down 0.3 basis point from late Thursday.

Stock investors appeared to put aside their worries about U.S. relations with its biggest trading partners for now. Dow Jones Industrial Average .DJI rose 75.12 points, or 0.3 percent, to 25,316.53, the S&P 500 .SPX gained 8.66 points, or 0.31 percent, to 2,779.03 and the Nasdaq Composite .IXIC added 10.44 points, or 0.14 percent, to 7,645.51.

The pan-European FTSEurofirst 300 index .FTEU3 lost 0.24 percent, while MSCI's gauge of stocks across the globe .MIWD00000PUS shed 0.14 percent.

Oil prices fell, pressured by concerns about surging U.S. output and falling demand in China. crude CLcv1 fell 21 cents to settle at $65.74 a barrel, while Brent LCOcv1 declined 86 cents to settle at $76.46.

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