* Asian stock markets: https://tmsnrt.rs/2zpUAr4
* Trump says could extend China trade deal deadline
* Safe-haven government bonds come under pressure
* Dollar capped, crude oil extends rally
* Kiwi jumps after RBNZ keeps rates on hold
By Shinichi Saoshiro and Tomo Uetake
TOKYO, Feb 13 (Reuters) - Asian stocks edged up to a more than four-month high on Wednesday, lifted by optimism that the United States and China might be able to hammer out a deal to resolve their nearly year-long trade dispute.
MSCI's broadest index of Asia-Pacific shares outside Japan .MIAPJ0000PUS rose as much as 0.5 percent to hit its highest level since early October.
Japan's Nikkei average .N225 climbed 1.3 percent to mark an eight-week high, while South Korea's KOSPI .KS11 gained 0.5 percent.
China's benchmark Shanghai Composite .SSEC and the blue-chip CSI 300 .CSI300 advanced 0.4 percent and 0.6 percent, respectively, and Hong Kong's Hang Seng .HSI was up 0.6 percent.
Asia took its cue from Wall Street, where the Dow .DJI and Nasdaq .IXIC each rallied about 1.5 percent overnight on optimism over U.S.-China trade negotiations and a tentative U.S. congressional spending deal to avert another partial government shutdown. .N
U.S. President Donald Trump said on Tuesday that he could see letting the March 1 deadline for reaching a trade agreement with China slide a little if the two sides were close to a complete deal. in Washington and Beijing had expressed hopes that a new round of talks which began this week would bring them nearer to easing their seven-month trade war.
"We are currently seeing negative sentiment which had built up over trade concerns and U.S. fiscal issues being unwound," said Soichiro Monji, senior economist at Daiwa SB Investments in Tokyo.
"For risk assets to move purely on optimism, the U.S.-China trade row will need to see some kind of a closure in March. A more permanent solution to avoid a U.S. government shutdown is also necessary. It has to be remembered that we are not there yet."
U.S. congressional negotiators cobbled together a tentative bipartisan border security deal late on Monday to avert another partial government shutdown. However, Trump on Tuesday expressed displeasure with the agreement and said he had yet to decide whether to support it. Cboe Volatility Index .VIX , Wall Street's so-called "fear gauge," dropped to as low as 14.95, its lowest level in more than four months, overnight.
With risk aversion ebbing for the time being, safe-haven government bonds were sold and their yields rose. The 10-year U.S. Treasury note yield US10YT=RR extended an overnight rise and edged up to a near one-week high of 2.694 percent.
The dollar was on the defensive as investors shifted their money to riskier assets amid the U.S.-China trade-talk hopes. FRX/
The dollar index stood at 96.697 .DXY =USD after its eight-day winning run came to an end overnight to push it away from a two-month peak.
The euro was a shade higher at $1.1333 EUR= having gained 0.5 percent the previous day, when it bounced from a three-month low of $1.1258.
The dollar was steady at 110.57 yen JPY= .
The kiwi dollar NZD=D4 jumped as much as 1.4 percent to a one-week high of $0.6829 after the Reserve Bank of New Zealand held the official cash rate at a record low of 1.75 percent and emphasised its neutral stance.
The central bank pushed back its forecasts for when it would hike rates to March 2021 from the September 2020 projected in its last statement in November. commodities, U.S. crude oil futures CLc1 were up 1.0 percent at $53.64 per barrel after rallying 1.3 percent on Tuesday.
Oil prices surged on Tuesday after OPEC figures showed it cut production sharply in January, and as lead member Saudi Arabia said it would reduce its output in March by an additional 500,000 barrels. O/R