* Turkish lira plunges to record low
* FT reports ECB worried about European bank exposure to Turkey
* Bank shares fall
* Euro falls to lowest since July 2017
* Yen climbs, bond yields fall
By Herbert Lash and Ritvik Carvalho
NEW YORK/LONDON, Aug 10 (Reuters) - A plunge in the Turkish lira rocked global equities and emerging markets on Friday and fear of more turmoil sent investors scurrying for safety in assets like the yen and U.S. government bonds.
The lira fell as much as 18 percent against the dollar in its worst day since Turkey's financial crisis of 2001. It followed a deepening rift with the United States, worries about its own economy and lack of action from policymakers. Tayyip Erdogan told Turks to exchange gold and dollars into lira as the currency tumbled after President Donald Trump doubled U.S. tariffs on metals imports from Turkey. currency has fallen more than 40 percent this year, fanning worries about a full-blown economic crisis.
Bank shares across Europe fell and the euro slipped to its lowest since July 2017 as the Financial Times quoted sources as saying the European Central Bank was concerned about European lenders' exposure to Turkey. dollar rose as exposure to Turkey could impact European banks and spark a domino effect throughout Europe as people begin to pull out of those banks and into the U.S., said Gregan Anderson, macroeconomic strategist at brokerage Bulltick LLC.
The turmoil makes it difficult for global investors to justify remaining in Europe and it is also negative for emerging markets.
"In that sense, the Turkey situation can be a contagion not only in Europe but across emerging markets," Anderson said.
Shares in France's BNP Paribas BNPP.PA , Italy's UniCredit CRDI.MI and Spain's BBVA BBVA.MC , the banks seen as most exposed to Turkey, fell 4 percent or more. index of regional banking shares .SX7E slid 3.7 percent while the pan-European STOXX 600 index .STOXX fell 1.2 percent.
The MSCI All-Country World index .MIWD00000PUS , which tracks shares in 47 countries, was down 1.1 percent and erased all its gains for the week.
Wall Street opened lower. Dow Jones Industrial Average .DJI fell 185.15 points, or 0.73 percent, to 25,324.08. The S&P 500 .SPX lost 14.92 points, or 0.52 percent, to 2,838.66 and the Nasdaq Composite .IXIC dropped 36.64 points, or 0.46 percent, to 7,855.15.
Investors piled into "safe" government debt, with German yields hitting three-week lows and the yield on the benchmark U.S. 10-year Treasury note US10YT=RR falling to 2.88822 percent. safe-haven Japanese yen JPY= hit a one-month high of 113.38 against the dollar.
The dollar index .DXY , which measures the greenback's strength against a group of six major currencies, breached 96, taking it to its highest level since July 2017. It was last up 0.7 percent at 96.173. to emerging market currency woes was the Russian ruble, RUBUTSTN=MCX which weakened to 67.12 to the dollar. Overnight it had retreated to its lowest since November 2016 on threats of new U.S. sanctions, weakening beyond the psychologically important 65-per-dollar threshold. Emerging market currencies slide
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