* Nikkei to notch record quarterly rise; KOSPI soars

* Yen plumbs 40-year low as US rate expectations lift dollar

* Oil's war worries in the rearview mirror

By Tom Westbrook

SINGAPORE, June 30 (Reuters) - Asian stocks wobbled toward

the end of a sparkling quarter on Tuesday, while a resurgent

dollar pushed the yen to a four-decade low and was headed for a

fourth straight quarterly rise.

Japan's Nikkei, which was steady in early trade, is

set for a record rise of more than 36% for the quarter. South

Korea's chipmaker-driven KOSPI slipped 1%, though it was

set for an eye-popping second-quarter rise of nearly 65% having

more than doubled year-to-date.

The oil market's worries about war have receded into memory

with benchmark Brent crude futures at pre-war prices of

$72.49 a barrel, even though the interim ceasefire is strained.

"Now that we have oil prices down, it's reinforcing our view

of more trend-like growth around the world relative to sub-trend

that we were thinking about a couple of months ago, and feeding

into the better earnings story as well," said Kerry Craig,

strategist at J.P. Morgan Asset Management in Melbourne.

Wall Street indexes rose overnight and futures were flat in

the Asia morning. The dollar eyed a quarterly rise thanks to a

remarkable re-pricing of the U.S. interest rate outlook which

has flipped from cuts to hikes on U.S. economic strength and

inflationary pressures.

The dollar's rise has driven gold to its largest

quarterly fall in more than a decade while the yen

touched a four-decade trough of 162.41 per dollar in Asia trade,

setting traders on edge about possible Japanese intervention.

Japan's Finance Minister Satsuki Katayama said authorities

stood ready to respond appropriately at any time.

The dollar index is up 1.3% this quarter, though this

week the euro regained the $1.14 chart level and the next

moves are likely to be driven by U.S. jobs data, due on Thursday

owing to Friday being a holiday, and a Wednesday appearance by

Federal Reserve Chair Kevin Warsh.

Chinese manufacturing expanded in June thanks to high-tech

exports, figures on Tuesday showed, while European inflation and

U.S. consumer confidence and job openings highlight the data

schedule ahead in the session.

SELLING THE RECORD RALLY

Around Asia, Taiwan's benchmark is set for a more

than 40% rise this quarter while other regions cannot quite keep

pace with the semiconductor-led markets.

Hong Kong's Hang Seng has been a noticeable laggard

as it limped - mostly flat on Tuesday - to a 7.5% quarterly

drop.

The behaviour of big investors through the record quarter

has been unusual, with the surging index weighting of Asia's big

chipmakers driving foreigners to sell all the way up as they

rebalance portfolios and worry about diversification.

A net $17.3 billion has left South Korean equities in the

year so far, according to BNY.

"That gap between returns and flows fits a broader pattern

across Asia's tech-heavy markets: strong performance is

triggering rebalancing and profit-taking, not fresh

institutional buying," said BNY macro strategist Geoff Yu.

Solid gains for Europe's STOXX index, set to notch

a 9% rise for the quarter, and China's mainland blue-chip CSI300

, up about 10% this quarter, are catching investors'

attention.

"Some of the concerns that investors have around how much

tech exposure they have ... (has them) looking for other themes

- whether that's defence, renewables, and how they think about

building more robust diversification in their portfolio," said

J.P. Morgan Asset Management's Craig.

(Reporting by Tom Westbrook; Editing by Muralikumar

Anantharaman)