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GLOBAL MARKETS-Shares falter as China-U.S. row over Hong Kong wrecks trade deal hopes

Published 21/11/2019, 05:19 pm
Updated 21/11/2019, 05:21 pm
© Reuters.  GLOBAL MARKETS-Shares falter as China-U.S. row over Hong Kong wrecks trade deal hopes

* U.S. stock futures fall 0.2%, Asia shares down

* Trump seen signing HK bills, looks set to anger Beijing

* Trade deal seen delayed into next year - sources

* U.S. bond yield, yuan at 3-week low

* European shares seen falling 0.5-0.7%

By Hideyuki Sano

TOKYO, Nov 21 (Reuters) - Global stocks took a beating on Thursday as a fresh row between Washington and Beijing over U.S. legislation on Hong Kong threatened to undermine their trade talks and delay a "phase one" deal that investors had initially hoped to be signed by now.

European shares were on course to extend their losses with pan-European Euro Stoxx 50 futures STXEc1 down 0.62%, German DAX futures FDXc1 falling 0.68% and Britain's FTSE futures FFIc1 down 0.48%.

MSCI's broadest index of Asia-Pacific shares outside Japan .MIAPJ0000PUS fell 1.2% to a three-week low, with Hong Kong's Hang Seng .HSI tumbling 1.6% while Japan's Nikkei .N225 dropped 0.4%. Chinese mainland shares dropped 0.3% .SSEC .

U.S. S&P500 futures ESc1 were down 0.15%, having dropped as much as 0.6% in Asian trade, a day after all three major indexes fell, with the S&P 500 .SPX losing 0.38%.

The U.S. House of Representatives on Wednesday passed two bills intended to support protesters in Hong Kong and send a warning to China about human rights. legislation, which has angered Beijing, has been sent to the White House for President Donald Trump's approval. A person familiar with the matter said Trump was expected to sign it. will surely take this as an interference into its domestic affairs and is likely to think it will no longer need to make concessions on trade," said Norihiro Fujito, chief investment strategist at Mitsubishi UFJ Morgan Stanley (NYSE:MS) Securities.

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The move came as trade experts and people close to the White House said completion of a "phase one" U.S.-China trade deal could slide into next year, as Beijing presses for more extensive tariff rollbacks, and the Trump administration counters with demands of its own. said on Oct. 11 that the deal could take as long as five weeks, and investors had initially expected an agreement by mid-November.

Asked Wednesday about the status of the China deal, Trump told reporters in Texas: "I don't think they're stepping up to the level that I want."

Trade jitters sent the 10-year U.S. Treasuries yield down to 1.736% US10YT=RR , near its lowest levels in three weeks and down nearly 25 basis points from a Nov. 7 peak of 1.973%, a three-month high.

Similarly in the currency market the yuan hit three-week lows, trading as low as 7.0450 to the dollar CNY=CFXS in onshore trade.

The dollar was soft against the yen at 108.59 JPY= , compared to this week's high of 109.07 touched on Monday, while gold held firm at $1,470.2 per ounce XAU= .

The euro was little changed at $1.1077 EUR= .

Tomoo Kinoshita, chief economist at Invesco Asset Management in Tokyo, said the market is unlikely to completely give up hopes on the trade deal.

"There have always been some uncertainties in trade talks but that won't erase positive effects from signs of bottoming out in the global manufacturing sector," he said.

The minutes from the Federal Reserve's previous policy meeting published on Wednesday offered little guidance on what would cause policymakers to change their minds on the outlook after an increasingly divided Fed decided to hit the pause button in its easing cycle. prices also dipped, paring some of their 2% gains made on Wednesday after a better-than-expected U.S. crude inventories report and as Russia said it would continue its cooperation with OPEC to keep the market balanced.

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Global benchmark Brent futures LCOc1 dropped 0.19% to $62.28. U.S. West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude futures CLc1 were down 0.16% at $56.92 per barrel in early Thursday trade. (Editing by Stephen Coates, Jacqueline Wong & Shri Navaratnam)

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