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GLOBAL MARKETS-China bounce snaps five-day equity sell-off

Published 10/07/2015, 01:30 am
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* Slide in China shares stalls, main indexes surge

* European stocks, Wall Street jump before Greek deadline

* Dollar gains versus yen as stocks bounce (Adds U.S. market open, byline, dateline; previous LONDON)

By Marc Jones and Herbert Lash

LONDON/NEW YORK, July 9 (Reuters) - World equity markets snapped a five-day sell-off and safe-haven assets such as bonds, the Swiss franc and yen fell on Thursday as Beijing halted a rout in Chinese stocks and Europe revived hopes that Greece could be kept in the euro currency union.

Shares on Wall Street rebounded about 1 percent, having been dragged into the red for the year on Wednesday by China's market crash, cliff-hanger talks on Greece and a benign yet unsettling glitch on the New York Stock Exchange. ID:nL1N0ZO2FG

European shares rallied more than 2 percent as Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras rushed to finalize a package of Greek tax hikes and pension reforms needed to win a new aid lifeline. ID:nL8N0ZP0TA

Without the money it will have to print another currency, probably leading to its exit from the euro. ID:nL8N0ZO1MI

Irish Finance Minister Michael Noonan said he saw a better than 50 percent chance of a deal being reached by Sunday's deadline following a "distinct change of mood" in recent days.

"The realistic proposal from Greece will have to be matched by an equally realistic proposal on debt sustainability from the creditors. Only then will we have a win-win situation," added European Council President Donald Tusk in Luxembourg. ID:nL8N0ZP1YT

Hopes of an agreement, which had looked all but doomed a few days ago, as well as more traditional market support from German export data lifted European shares and southern euro zone government bonds rallied. Still, investors were reluctant to make too big a move given past efforts to reach a Greek deal.

The pan-European FTSEurofirst 300 index .FTEU3 rose 2.0 percent to 1,507.33, while MSCI's all-country world index .MIWD00000PUS of global equity performance gained 0.99 percent.

The Dow Jones industrial average .DJI rose 148.88 points, or 0.85 percent, to 17,664.3. The S&P 500 .SPX gained 16.2 points, or 0.79 percent, to 2,062.88 and the Nasdaq Composite .IXIC added 46.97 points, or 0.96 percent, to 4,956.73.

Chinese markets helped boost the global mood as the main stock index .CSI300 rose 6.4 percent, recovering almost as much as it had lost the previous day. The Chinese securities regulator ordered shareholders with stakes of more than 5 percent not to sell for the next six months. ID:nL3N0ZO5WX

"The Chinese market has shown a nice rebound for a day but it is important to note that many of the owners are restricted from selling their shares and half the companies have suspended trading," said Randy Frederick, managing director of trading and derivatives for Charles Schwab in Austin, Texas.

The rebound in China sapped this week's gains by the Japanese yen JPY= , which tends to gain when markets turn risk-averse, and helped boost uneasy commodity markets.

Cautioned stirred by the Federal Reserve's minutes on Wednesday had weakened the dollar. ID:nL1N0ZO1RO

The dollar was up 0.56 percent against the yen at 121.38 JPY= . The greenback also rose against the Swiss franc CHF= , up 0.4 percent at 0.9490 franc.

The euro, meanwhile, was down 0.37 percent against the dollar at $1.1034.

Yields on long-term U.S. Treasuries backed away from this week's five-week lows caused by worries about the Greek debt crisis and rout in Chinese equities.

The benchmark 10-year U.S. Treasury note US10YT=RR was down 21/32 in price to yield 2.2815 percent.

Yields on 10-year German Bunds, the benchmark for euro zone borrowing costs, were up 4 basis points at 0.72 percent DE10YT=TWEB

Brent crude rose more than $2 a barrel at one point as supportive economic data from Germany, firmer stock markets and strong gasoline demand lifted oil prices.

Brent crude LCOc1 was $1.61 higher at $58.66 a barrel and front-month U.S. crude futures CLc1 were up $1.05 at $53.70 a barrel.

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