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* Europe shares follow Asia higher, Tokyo up 7.7 percent
* Wall Street gives up gains as Apple, energy weigh
* Greenback sheds gains as stocks fall; copper jumps
By Rodrigo Campos
NEW YORK, Sept 9 (Reuters) - U.S. stocks fell on Wednesday, weighed down by a slide in Apple's share price and weakness in the energy sector, though European and major Asian bourses earlier ended higher.
Oil prices ended sharply lower, pressured by ongoing concerns about oversupply and bets that demand may slow with global economic growth. O/L
"Investors are still looking for policy developments out of China, and also wary of what might come out of the Fed next week," said Bucky Hellwig, senior vice president at BB&T (NYSE:BBT) Wealth Management in Birmingham, Alabama.
The Dow Jones industrial average .DJI fell 1.45 percent, to 16,253.57, while the S&P 500 .SPX lost 1.39 percent to 1,942.04 and the Nasdaq Composite .IXIC ended down 1.15 percent at 4,756.53.
Shares of Apple AAPL.O ended down 1.9 percent at $110.15 in heavy trading, after its latest product launch failed to meet expectations. ID:nL1N11F1FD
U.S. energy stocks .SPNY led declines among S&P 500 index stocks, falling 1.9 percent as U.S. oil prices CLc1 fell 3.9 percent. Chevron (NYSE:CVX) CVX.N was down 2.5 percent at $74.92.
The pan-European FTSEurofirst 300 index .FTEU3 rose 1.4 percent and the JP Morgan world equity index .MIWD00000PUS gained 0.3 percent.
Earlier Wednesday major stock markets had rallied on expectation of increased government support from China and the possibility that Japan will cut corporate taxes.
Japan's Nikkei earlier soared 7.7 percent, its biggest single-day gain since October 2008, galvanized by hopes of corporate tax cuts. ID:nL4N11D3H5
China's Finance Ministry said on Wednesday it would strengthen fiscal policy, boost infrastructure spending and speed up tax reform, helping lift Chinese shares for a second day. ID:nL4N11F174
Investors' increased appetite for risk overseas saw the U.S. dollar firm against the safe-haven yen and the euro, but the greenback's gains were lost as Wall Street stocks reversed course.
The euro EUR= was little changed against the U.S. currency at $1.1206 while the yen was also near flat at 120.47 per dollar. The dollar index .DXY , which measures the greenback against a basket of six major currencies, was nearly flat.
Benchmark Brent crude oil LCOc1 was down 4.3 percent at $47.41 a barrel. U.S. crude CLc1 fell 4 percent to $44.11 per barrel.
U.S. 10-year Treasury yields US10YT=RR were at 2.1953 percent, with a slight loss of less than 1/32 in price.
Copper CMCU3 hit a seven-week high above $5,400 a tonne on the back of the Chinese stimulus news and was recently up 0.4 percent at $5,365 a tonne.
Gold XAU= fell 1.4 percent, the most in seven weeks, to $1,106 an ounce -the lowest in nearly a month.