* Oil ends lower
* Chilean peso drops after protests
* Benchmark 10-year yields up (Updates to afternoon trading, adds oil price settlements, Chilean peso weakness)
By Caroline Valetkevitch
NEW YORK, Oct 21 (Reuters) - World stock indexes rose on Monday as hopes for resolving the U.S.-China trade war bolstered investor optimism, and the U.S. dollar index edged higher.
White House adviser Larry Kudlow said tariffs scheduled for December could be withdrawn if talks go well, adding to optimism after China said it would work with the United States to address each other's core concerns. Britain, the parliament's speaker refused to allow a vote on Boris Johnson's divorce deal with the European Union, suggesting the British prime minister faces further problems in Brexit ratification. opponents in parliament on Saturday demanded a change to the sequencing of the ratification of the deal, forcing him to request a delay.
MSCI's world equity index .MIWD00000PUS , which tracks shares in 47 countries, gained 0.6%. The Euro STOXX 600 .STOXX added 0.6%, while the S&P 500 .SPX index was also up 0.6%.
"It looks like the global economy has settled and worries that we're falling into the depths of a recession have eased," said Alan Lancz, president of Alan B. Lancz & Associates Inc., an investment advisory firm based in Toledo, Ohio.
"It's a more settled market," he said. Also, "it's a matter of maybe things just on hold politically."
On Friday, Chinese Vice Premier Liu He said that Beijing will collaborate with the United States to address mutual concerns on the trade war. investors are also gearing up for more high-profile earnings reports this week from such companies as Microsoft Corp MSFT.O and Amazon.com Inc. AMZN.O .
On Wall Street, the Dow Jones Industrial Average .DJI rose 50.61 points, or 0.19%, to 26,820.81, the S&P 500 .SPX gained 19.97 points, or 0.67%, to 3,006.17 and the Nasdaq Composite .IXIC added 70.69 points, or 0.87%, to 8,160.23.
The dollar index .DXY was up 0.1% in afternoon trading, while sterling GBP= was last trading at $1.2963, down 0.06% on the day.
The Chilean peso CLP= was down about 2% and on track for its biggest daily percentage decline in more than six years after a state of emergency was declared in the capital city of Santiago following violent protests over the weekend. the dollar, sterling GBP= was last up 0.1% in North American trade, having earlier broken above $1.30 for the first time in 5-1/2 months. The euro was 0.18% higher against the dollar EUR= , having also been lifted by Brexit optimism this month by 2.23%. the U.S. bond market, benchmark 10-year notes US10YT=RR last fell 11/32 in price to yield 1.787%, from 1.75% late on Friday. commodities, oil prices fell. U.S. crude CLcv1 fell 0.9% to settle at $53.31 per barrel and Brent LCOcv1 settled at $58.96, down 0.8% on the day. Reuters Live Markets blog on European and UK stock markets, click on: LIVE/
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