* White House failure on healthcare raises worries over tax reform
* Dollar skids to 4-month low
* Safe havens such as gold, bonds, yen gain
* Oil dips towards $50 on doubts over output cut (Updates to close of European markets, updates comment)
By Saqib Iqbal Ahmed
NEW YORK, March 27 (Reuters) - Stocks, the dollar and U.S. long-dated Treasury yields slipped on Monday but recovered lost ground as investors hoped U.S. President Donald Trump will still be able to bolster the economy despite a defeat over healthcare reform.
Trump's failure to rally enough support from his own Republican party - which controls both houses of U.S. Congress - to repeal and replace Obamacare spurred a rush to safe-haven assets such as gold XAU= , the Japanese yen JPY= and the Swiss franc CHF= , before nerves steadied. dip in risk appetite dominated Asian and European stock markets, and the MSCI's all-country world equity index .MIWD00000PUS was down 0.17 percent.
The index, which fell to a near two-week low after Wall Street stocks hit their lowest levels in about six weeks at the open, recovered ground as major U.S. stock indexes trimmed losses. The Nasdaq Composite .IXIC turned positive. appeared to be trading on the hope that the Trump administration will still be able to deliver on its promise of tax reform even though details remain scarce, said Brad McMillan, chief investment officer for Commonwealth Financial in Waltham, Massachusetts.
"The beauty of it from a market perspective, is without the details we can all trade on hope. At this point we are still seeing the benefit of hope on the market side and we will see what happens on the details," he said.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average .DJI fell 61.75 points, or 0.3 percent, to 20,534.97, the S&P 500 .SPX lost 5 points, or 0.21 percent, to 2,338.98 and the Nasdaq Composite .IXIC added 5.29 points, or 0.09 percent, to 5,834.03.
European shares were hit by losses among miners and banks. Europe's broad FTSEurofirst 300 index .FTEU3 closed down 0.37 percent at 1,479.05. U.S. dollar slipped, briefly falling to its lowest since November against a basket of currencies, as investors lost confidence in prospects for a U.S. fiscal spending boost under the Trump administration. dollar index .DXY had risen to a 14-year high near 104.00 in early January when expectations for inflation-boosting stimulus under the Trump presidency were at their peak. The index was down 0.45 percent at 99.175.
The weaker dollar helped boost gold. Spot gold XAU= was up 0.91 percent at $1,255.13 an ounce, after hitting a 1-month high of $1,261.03 an ounce, earlier in the session. long-dated Treasury yields fell to one-month lows on Monday, knocked by growing uncertainty about whether the Trump administration could deliver on its campaign promise to bolster the economy. 30-year bond prices rose 12/32 US30YT=RR , yielding 2.9816 percent. Earlier, yields slid to 2.96 percent, their lowest since Feb. 28.
"This is just follow-through from Friday. There is disappointment over the inability to pass the reform of Obamacare," said Gennadiy Goldberg, interest rates strategist at TD Securities in New York.
Meanwhile, oil resumed its slide as investors remained uncertain whether producing nations will extend an OPEC-led output cut beyond the end of June in an effort to reduce a global glut of crude. crude LCOc1 was down 21 cents, or 0.41 percent, at $50.59 a barrel. U.S. crude CLc1 was down 37 cents, or 0.77 percent, at $47.60 per barrel.
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