* Oil rises above $31 a bbl on speculation on supply pact
* Wall Street shares rebound, Apple stock slips before results
* Jitters remain after China shares fall to 14-month low
* Hopes of dovish U.S. Fed lend some support (Updates market action, adds quote)
By Richard Leong
NEW YORK, Jan 26 (Reuters) - Stock and oil prices rebounded in choppy trading on Tuesday on hopes oil producers will cut output to address the supply glut that has punished equity markets and pushed crude values to 12-year lows.
Bets that oil exporters could reduce production helped scale back some demand for low-risk yen and U.S. and German government debt, but it remained unclear whether a deal could be reached and would be enough to soothe jittery investors.
"This is a schizophrenic market. Big up days, big down days. No real direction," said Tim Ghriskey, chief investment officer of Solaris Group in Bedford Hills, New York.
Investors also awaited more clues to whether the Federal Reserve and other central banks will help stabilize markets that have been roiled partly due to worries about weakening economic growth in China.
The U.S. central bank is expected to leave interest rates unchanged after its two-day policy meeting that began Tuesday and signal it may not raise rates until mid-2016 at the earliest. FED/DIARY
Top OPEC and Russian oil industry officials stepped up vague talk on Monday of possible joint action to remedy one of the worst supply gluts in decades. Others, including Kuwait, said they doubt it will happen as long as others are increasing their output. crude futures LCOc1 gained $1.30, or 4.26 percent, at $31.80 a barrel and U.S. crude CLc1 climbed $1.11, or 3.66 percent, at $31.45. Both retreated from their strongest levels before the day's close. oil rebound revived some appetite for stocks.
The Dow Jones industrial average .DJI rose 282.01 points, or 1.78 percent, to 16,167.23, the S&P 500 .SPX gained 26.55 points, or 1.41 percent, to 1,903.63 and the Nasdaq Composite .IXIC added 49.18 points, or 1.09 percent, to 4,567.67. nervousness ahead of Apple's AAPL.O quarterly results later Tuesday, which are expected to show a sharp drop in iPhone sales, was mitigated by encouraging U.S. data on home prices and consumer confidence. shares were up 0.6 percent at $99.99.
The pan-European FTSEurofirst 300 index .FTEU3 closed up 0.9 percent at 1,335.90. Nikkei .N225 ended 2.4-percent weaker, part of a broad decline across Asia. Chinese shares .SSEC .CSI300 tumbled more than 6 percent to a 14-month low on renewed jitters over Beijing's ability to calm domestic markets. yen was initially stronger against the dollar and euro but reversed those gains with the rebound in stock and oil prices. It was last down 0.1 percent against the greenback at 118.43 yen JPY= and down 0.2 percent versus the euro at 128.54 yen EURJPY= . dollar was weaker against a basket of currencies, ending down 0.3 percent at 99.055 .DXY .
Nagging worries about falling oil prices and the global economy underpinned demand for U.S. and German government bonds.
Benchmark 10-year Treasury yield US10YT=RR dipped 2 basis points to 2.001 percent. The 10-year Bund yield DE10YT=RR declined 3 basis points to 0.443 percent. gold prices XAU= rose for a second day. It was last up $13.45 or 1.21 percent, to $1,121.11 an ounce. GOL/