* Global stocks retreat from record highs
* Bank stocks weigh on Wall Street
* Investors await substantive policy update from Trump (Updates with U.S. market open; changes byline, dateline; previous LONDON)
By Chuck Mikolajczak
NEW YORK, Feb 17 (Reuters) - Stocks on major world markets dipped on Friday in the wake of consecutive sessions of record highs, as investors looked for clarity on U.S. President Donald Trump's tax and trade policies.
Despite the decline, the MSCI All-Country World index .MIWD00000PUS remained on track for its fourth straight week of gains after rising to a record high on Thursday on positive signs of global economic growth.
Wall Street was lower for a second straight day as softness in financial stocks .SPSY , down 0.5 percent, weighed on equities. Banks had provided a boost earlier in the week when U.S. Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen gave testimony that appeared to open the door for a rate hike in March.
Markets have also been underpinned by expectations of concrete fiscal plans from the Trump administration, which vowed last week to announce a tax reform plan in the coming weeks.
"The market seems to be extremely generous to the Trump organization and I guess the market is focused on the long term of what might be versus what is happening right now," said Randy Frederick, managing director of trading and derivatives for Charles Schwab (NYSE:SCHW) in Austin, Texas.
"At some point the market is going to expect the things that it is moving higher on to actually happen."
The Dow Jones Industrial Average .DJI fell 62.21 points, or 0.3 percent, to 20,557.56, the S&P 500 .SPX lost 5.75 points, or 0.24 percent, to 2,341.47 and the Nasdaq Composite .IXIC dropped 2.96 points, or 0.05 percent, to 5,811.94.
U.S. markets will be closed on Monday for the Presidents Day holiday.
European stocks edged lower as gains in Allianz ALVG.DE and Unilever ULVR.L offset a decline in banking and mining stocks. benchmark global equity index lost 0.4 percent to 442.76 points, retreating from a record high of 444.94 on Thursday. Europe's index of leading 300 stocks .FTEU3 was 0.09 percent lower.
The dollar .DXY , up 0.4 percent, improved versus most peers with the exception of the yen, leaving it little changed on the week following a mildly hawkish view from Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen and surprising strong U.S. data on retail sales and consumer prices. yen JPY= rose against major currencies as concerns about the upcoming French elections and the lack of movement in fiscal changes in the United States kindled safe-haven demand for the Japanese currency.
U.S. Treasury prices gained on Friday as concerns over the French election and weak data in Britain added to risk aversion, hurting stock markets and boosting demand for safe-haven U.S. debt. 10-year notes US10YT=RR were last up 10/32 in price to yield 2.4146 percent, down from 2.45 percent late on Thursday, after touching a one-week low of 2.4.
Oil slipped, pressured by growing global stocks, while expectations that an oil output cut by producers might eventually balance the market helped to underpin prices. crude LCOc1 lost 0.3 percent to $55.46 while U.S. crude declined 0.5 percent to $53.07 a barrel.
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