* Equities recover from early losses
* Travel sector stocks drop
* Gold, yen and Treasury bonds in demand (Adds open of U.S. markets, changes byline, dateline; previous LONDON)
By Chuck Mikolajczak
NEW York, March 22 (Reuters) - Global equity markets fell on Tuesday while safe-haven gold and government bonds were in demand after attacks on the airport and a rush-hour metro train in Brussels triggered security alerts across western Europe.
At least 30 people were killed in attacks on Brussels airport and the train in the Belgian capital on Tuesday. sector stocks including airlines and hotels were among the hardest-hit, although stocks had managed to recover from sharper losses and bonds and gold eased back from their earlier highs.
On Wall Street, the NYSEArca airline index .XAL lost 1.2 percent and was on track for its first decline in five sessions. Cruise ship operators Royal Caribbean RCL.N and Carnival Corp (NYSE:CCL) CCL.N were among the worst performers on the S&P 500, down more than 3 percent each.
"So far we are holding up pretty well with some emphasis on safe haven," said Peter Jankovskis, co-chief investment officer at OakBrook Investments LLC in Lisle, Illinois.
"It looks like the market impact will pass pretty quickly, depending on follow-up obviously. If we see additional attacks in coming days, that changes the equation."
The Dow Jones industrial average .DJI fell 23.35 points, or 0.13 percent, to 17,600.52, the S&P 500 .SPX lost 0.48 points, or 0.02 percent, to 2,051.12 and the Nasdaq Composite .IXIC added 7.79 points, or 0.16 percent, to 4,816.66.
The FTSEuroFirst 300 index .FTEU3 of leading shares was down 0.43 percent at 1,334.02. Belgian stocks .BEL20 were flat after having been down as much as 1.4 percent. MSCI's index of world shares .MIWD00000PUS was 0.24 percent lower.
In Europe, the STOXX Europe 600 Travel & Leisure index .SXTP was down 1.9 percent. Shares in major European airlines like Ryanair RYA.I and Air France-KLM AIRF.PA also fell. XAU= rose 0.75 percent to $1,252.56 an ounce having been up around twice that earlier. U.S. 10-year notes US10YT=RR were last up 7/32 in price to yield 1.8962 percent, down from 1.921 percent on Monday. The yields earlier fell as low as 1.879 percent. currency markets the Japanese yen, regarded by investors as a shelter from turbulence, rose across the board, notably against the euro. The euro was last down 0.29 percent at 125.46 yen EURJPY= and the dollar was down 0.2 percent at 111.70 yen JPY= .
The single currency euro EUR= fell 0.1 percent against the dollar to $1.1227. The dollar .DXY was up 0.2 percent to 95.493 against a basket of major currencies. is expected to continue to lessen ahead of the Easter holiday and investors were beginning to think about cashing in on a steep rally in stocks over the last few weeks.
The move toward safe-haven assets dented demand for oil, with U.S. crude futures off 0.1 percent to $41.46 a barrel while Brent rebounded from a low of $40.97 to last trade up 0.29 percent at $41.65. Global assets in 2015
http://link.reuters.com/dub25t Commodities performance
http://link.reuters.com/rac73w Currencies vs dollar
http://link.reuters.com/tak27s
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