* European shares lower after North Korea missile test
* U.S. CPI revives Fed Dec rate hike bets
* Sterling at 14-month high after BoE rate hike warning
* Bitcoin tumbles as China to shut down all exchanges by end-Sept
* Gold heads for biggest weekly fall since July
* Biggest weekly gain for dollar index since April
* Graphic: World FX rates in 2017 http://tmsnrt.rs/2egbfVh
By Marc Jones
LONDON, Sept 15 (Reuters) - Traders paid little attention to the latest missile test by North Korea on Friday, with shares and other risk assets barely moving, gold lower and focus rapidly returning to when and where interest rates will go up.
London, Frankfurt and Paris were a shade lower after Pyongyang fired a second missile in as many weeks over Japan but the test had little effect on what was set to be the best week for European stocks .FTEU3 since July. .EU
The yen was also pushed lower to 110.7 per dollar JPY= in the currency markets, but that too was a continuation of trend.
The Japanese currency has seen its biggest fall this week in 10 months while the dollar .DXY is headed for its biggest rise since April, thanks to a revival in U.S. inflation data and bets the Federal Reserve could raise rates again this year.
"You have risk appetite returning in the markets more generally at the moment, so you have all these forces pushing down the yen," said Vasileios Gkionakis, global head of FX strategy at UniCredit.
Britain's pound GBP= was the other standout, hitting a 14-month high of $1.3430 a day after the Bank of England said it might raise interest rates for the first time in a decade in the "coming months" was also on course for its best week in over eight years on a trade-weighted basis and since November 2016 against the euro, which finally looks to have cooled following its surge this year. EURGBP=
"If these data trends of reducing slack, rising pay pressure, strengthening household spending and robust global growth continue, the appropriate time for a rise in the Bank Rate might be as early as in the coming months," BoE member Gertjan Vlieghe said on Friday.
"If they don't do it (hike rates) this time, their credibility will be lost completely for the next few years," Unicredit's Gkionakis said. Markets expect the BoE to move in November, he added.
Government bond yields slipped from the week's highs as the geopolitical tensions drove investors back into a market they have been leaving all week. Safe-haven gold XAU= was also heading for its biggest weekly drop since July. GVD/EUR
North Korea's latest test missile flew over Japan's northern island of Hokkaido before landing about 3,700 km (2,300 miles) into the Pacific Ocean, which would be far enough to reach the U.S. Pacific territory of Guam 10-year government bond yield, the benchmark for the region, inched down to 0.41 percent, but was still flirting with its biggest weekly rise since late June.
U.S. yields have also jumped. U.S. Fed funds rate futures FFF8 on Friday were pricing in a roughly 45 percent chance the Fed will raise rates by December, versus around 25 percent at the start of this week.
CRYPTO CRUSH
U.S. stock futures ESc1 pointed to a steady start for the S&P 500, which is on track for a near 1.5 percent rise this week after another run of record highs. .N
MSCI's Asia-Pacific share index excluding Japan .MIAPJ0000PUS shed 0.1 percent in reaction to the North Korea missile overnight, though it was still up 0.7 percent on the week.
Japan's Nikkei .N225 gained 0.5 percent and a more than 3 percent jump gave it its best week since November in a directly inverse move to the yen.
"There have been reports (for a while) suggesting North Korea is preparing a missile launch, so this was by no means a surprise," said Hirokazu Kabeya, chief global strategist at Daiwa Securities.
"In a way, this seems like something markets have already experienced before, thus producing a limited reaction," he added.
Oil prices were lower on Friday but largely held the gains that had prices testing flirting with multi-month highs the previous day as the clean-up after hurricanes in the United States meant a firmer tone for demand. O/R
Brent crude futures LCOc1 traded at $55.14 per barrel, down 0.6 percent on the day but up 2.5 percent on the week. They hit a five-month high of $55.99 on Thursday.
Elsewhere, bitcoin BTC=BTSP slipped another 3 percent after having tumbled 16 percent on Thursday, when Chinese news outlet Yicai reported that China plans to shut down all bitcoin exchanges by the end of September.
BTCChina, one of China's top three exchanges, said on Thursday that it would stop all trading from Sept. 30 cryptocurrency was down for an eighth consecutive day BTC=BTSP at close to $3,000 and was on track for its worst week since 2013, having slumped 25 percent since Monday MSCI, Nikkei datastream chart
http://reut.rs/2sSBRiD U.S. CPI
http://reut.rs/2jupUz0 Graphic: World FX rates in 2017
http://tmsnrt.rs/2egbfVh
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