* Brent touches highest since July 2015
* Stocks fall further after N.Korea says Trump declared war
* Technology stocks slide on Wall Street
By Rodrigo Campos
NEW YORK, Sept 25 (Reuters) - The euro fell on Monday after elections in Germany showed support for Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservatives fell to its lowest since 1949, while Brent oil futures rose to a more than 2-year high after major producers said the global market was on track to rebalance.
Stocks on Wall Street fell after North Korea accused the United States of having declared war, While U.S. government bond yields fell as investors sought safer assets.
The emergence of the pro-regulation Greens as power-brokers in any government coalition in Germany weighed on financial markets. don't like uncertainty and the German election results have injected a healthy dose of (that)," said Richard Falkenhall, a strategist at SEB AB in Stockholm.
The U.S. dollar also benefited from a New Zealand election which left the ruling National Party short of the necessary votes to rule without forming a coalition. The greenback gained 0.8 percent to the kiwi NZD= . dollar index .DXY rose 0.49 percent, with the euro EUR= down 0.85 percent to $1.1851. Japanese yen strengthened 0.30 percent versus the greenback at 111.64 per dollar, while Sterling GBP= was last trading at $1.3454, down 0.27 percent on the day.
The stronger dollar weighed on emerging market stocks, which lost 1.40 percent, the most in over four months. MSCI's broadest index of Asia-Pacific shares outside Japan .MIAPJ0000PUS closed 1.25 percent lower, while Japan's Nikkei .N225 rose 0.50 percent. Wall Street, a selloff in tech drove major indexes lower and equities fell further after the North Korean Foreign Minister said U.S. President Donald Trump's tweets over the weekend were tantamount to a declaration of war. Dow Jones Industrial Average .DJI fell 80.68 points, or 0.36 percent, to 22,268.91, the S&P 500 .SPX lost 9.84 points, or 0.39 percent, to 2,492.38 and the Nasdaq Composite .IXIC dropped 66.38 points, or 1.03 percent, to 6,360.55. pan-European FTSEurofirst 300 index .FTEU3 rose 0.26 percent and MSCI's gauge of stocks across the globe .MIWD00000PUS shed 0.52 percent.
CRUDE RALLIES
Brent crude touched its highest since July 2015 after major producers said the global market was on track to rebalance and Turkey said it could cut off a pipeline that carries oil from northern Iraq to the global market, putting more pressure on the Kurdish autonomous region over its independence referendum. this boycott call proves successful, a good 500,000 fewer barrels of crude oil per day would reach the market," Commerzbank (DE:CBKG) said in a note.
U.S. crude CLcv1 rose 1.95 percent to $51.65 per barrel and Brent LCOcv1 was last at $57.71, up 2.29 percent on the day.
Safe-haven demand drove U.S. Treasury yields to session lows after North Korean foreign minister's remarks at the United Nations. He said Pyongyang reserves the right to take countermeasures. 10-year notes US10YT=RR last rose 11/32 in price to yield 2.2233 percent, from 2.262 percent late on Friday. 30-year bond US30YT=RR last rose 22/32 in price to yield 2.7623 percent, from 2.796 percent late on Friday.
Spot gold XAU= added 0.6 percent to $1,304.96 an ounce. U.S. gold futures GCcv1 gained 0.82 percent to $1,308.20 an ounce.
Copper CMCU3 lost 0.08 percent to $6,452.00 a tonne.
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