* Euro STOXX 600 up 0.2%
* Bonds across world fall, taking cue from U.S. Treasuries
* Dollar bounces after hitting near 3-year low
* Commodities, finance, chipmakers lead broad equity gains
* S&P 500 futures up 0.4%
By Tom Wilson
LONDON, Jan 7 (Reuters) - Bonds dropped and stocks rose on Thursday as investors bet Democrat control of the U.S. Congress would enable President-elect Joe Biden to borrow and spend heavily, while a bruised dollar strained to recover from near-three year lows.
U.S. Treasuries extended their steepest selloff in months after Democratic Party victories in two Georgia races handed them narrow control of the Senate, bolstering Biden's power to pass his agenda. Euro STOXX 600 .STOXX gained 0.2%, with indexes in Frankfurt .GDAXI and Paris .FCHI up 0.4% and 0.6% respectively. Growth-linked sectors from energy .SX7E to miners .SXPP rallied on the prospects of more U.S. stimulus, though UK shares .FTSE turned negative.
The MSCI world equity index .MIWD00000PUS , which tracks shares in almost 50 countries, rose 0.2%.
S&P 500 futures ESc1 rose 0.4%. A shaken Congress in the early hours of Thursday formally certified Biden's election victory, after hundreds of President Donald Trump's supporters had stormed the U.S. Capitol. shocking images of the assault on American democracy had earlier knocked sentiment, though markets focused on the implications of Democrat control of Congress.
Earlier, MSCI's broadest index of Asia-Pacific shares outside Japan .MIAPJ0000PUS had risen 0.4% and Japan's Nikkei .N225 hit its highest since 1990.
"The market is saying the reflation trade is on," said Justin Onuekwusi, portfolio manager at Legal & General Investment Management.
"The Democrat sweep means there will be more flexibility and speed to writing a fiscal check so a one-off U.S. fiscal boost as a bridge to a post-vaccine world is definitely on the cards."
Wednesday's bond sell-off pushed the yield on benchmark 10-year U.S. Treasuries US10YT=RR , which rises when prices fall, over 1% for the first time since March. It rose as high as 1.0660% on Thursday before slipping back. US/
Euro zone government bonds followed suit, with Germany's 10-year Bund yield up slightly to -0.55%. Japanese government bonds also slipped. DOLLAR
The Democrat victory reverberated in currency markets, too.
The dollar had sunk on the Georgia results to a near-three year low against a basket of six major currencies =USD , with traders betting growing U.S. trade and budget deficits would weigh on a greenback already bruised.
On Thursday it bounced 0.6% to 89.780, on track for its biggest one-day gain since October.
Against the euro EUR= it clawed away from an almost three-year low of $1.22, and also languished near recent multi-year troughs against the Aussie AUD=D3 , kiwi NZD=D3 and Swiss franc CHF= .
Still, some analysts said rising bond yields may help the dollar's fortunes.
"Higher Treasury yields should benefit the dollar against the euro and the yen," said Masafumi Yamamoto, chief currency strategist at Mizuho Securities in Tokyo.
"However, the dollar will remain weaker against commodity currencies like the Aussie and emerging market currencies."
Other risk-on assets climbed, with safe havens like the Japanese yen JPY=EBS losing ground.
Copper, a barometer for global growth, gained 0.3% MCU3=LX to hover near an 8-year high.
In Asia, miners Rio Tinto (LON:RIO) RIO.AX and BHP BHP.AX earlier surged to all-time peaks, while chipmakers Samsung 005930.KS and SK Hynix 000660.KS drove South Korean stocks .KS11 to a record high.
Oil prices held around a 10-month high, basking in the afterglow of a production cut promised by Saudi Arabia. Brent crude futures LCOc1 were flat at $54.25 a barrel.
Gold XAU= was steady at $1,921 an ounce, and bitcoin BTC=BTSP firm after hitting a fresh record high of $37,800.
The cryptocurrency has soared over a quarter already this month after almost quadrupling last year.
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