* European tech stocks follow U.S. peers lower
* Markets brace for U.S. earnings season
* Oil, gold slip lower
* Graphic: World FX rates in 2020 http://tmsnrt.rs/2egbfVh
By Tom Arnold and Tom Westbrook
LONDON/SINGAPORE, July 14 (Reuters) - Global stocks slipped on Tuesday, oil fell and a safety bid supported the dollar as simmering Sino-U.S. tensions and new coronavirus restrictions in California kept a lid on optimism as earnings season got underway.
MSCI's All-Country World Index .MIWD00000PUS edged down 0.4% after touching a 20-week high on Monday. The pan-European STOXX 600 .STOXX was 1.3% lower and was heading for its worst day in 14 sessions after technology stocks .SX8P dropped 3.4%. This followed a slump on Monday in the tech-heavy Nasdaq .IXIC .
MSCI's broadest index of Asia-Pacific shares outside Japan .MIAPJ0000PUS fell 1%. Chinese stocks were down despite better-than-expected trade numbers. The U.S. dollar gained.
The moves followed a selloff on Wall Street after California Governor Gavin Newsom ordered bars closed and restaurants and movie theatres to cease indoor operations. 500 futures ESc1 were 0.3% stronger after the index .SPX lost 0.9% on Monday. .N
Tension grew between Washington and Beijing after the United States rejected China's claims to offshore resources in most of the South China Sea. Trump Administration also plans to scrap a 2013 auditing agreement that could foreshadow a broader crackdown on U.S.-listed Chinese firms. not just the tempo which is picking up, but the aspect of so many areas being pulled into the dispute," said Vishnu Varathan, head of economics at Mizuho Bank in Singapore.
"Last time, it was really about the bottom line," Varathan said, but what had primarily been a trade dispute is now much broader, making a resolution less likely and the next moves less predictable.
The Shanghai index .SSEC fell 0.7% despite official figures showing Chinese exports and imports topped forecasts in June, while China continued to buy significant amounts of commodities, including iron ore. return of restrictions in California also has markets on edge about whether the coronavirus can wreak more economic harm. Global infections have surged by a million in five days, and top 13 million. ABOUT 2021
Oil prices, a proxy for global energy consumption and growth expectations, reflected the concerns. U.S crude futures CLc1 fell 1% to $39.70 per barrel and Brent futures LCOc1 fell 0.8% to $42.40 per barrel. O/R
Investors sought out the safety of euro zone government bonds. Most yields were two to three basis points lower, with Germany's 10-year Bund yield DE10YT=RR , the region's benchmark, dropping to -0.42%. are also signs of an interruption to the steady flow of better-than-expected economic data. On Tuesday, data showed Singapore entered recession last month, with the economy contracting 41.2% for the quarter, worse than the 37.4% analysts had forecast. gross domestic product rose by 1.8% in May after falling by a record 20.8% in April, the Office for National Statistics said, well below forecasts in a Reuters poll. markets kept the dollar in a tight range. Against a basket of currencies, the dollar index was down 0.1% at 96.453 =USD . The euro was 0.2% stronger against the dollar at $1.1369 EUR=EBS . L5N2EL1LI
The focus will shift later to U.S. earnings, with JP Morgan JPM.N , Citigroup (NYSE:C) C.N , Wells Fargo (NYSE:WFC) WFC.N and Delta Air Lines (NYSE:DAL) DAL.N due to report on Tuesday to a market already looking to 2021 and beyond.
"It's really about 2021 -- 2020 is over," said fund manager Hugh Dive, chief investment officer at Atlas Funds Management in Sydney, where earnings season begins next month.
"The outlook statements are what the market will look at," he said. "If a company surprises on the upside with their 2020 earnings, but has shaky commentary for 2021 ... they're not going to be rewarded for that."
Spot gold XAU= slipped 0.5% at $1,793.14 per ounce. GOL/
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