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Euro STOXX 600 up 0.4%
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30-year Treasury, JGB bond yields fall
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Tokyo mulls cutting super-long bond issuance, Reuters
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Wall Street set for strong open after Monday's holiday
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Investors' focus on Nvidia ( NVDA ) earnings, Fed speeches
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Dollar headed for fifth-straight monthly decline
By Tom Wilson and Rae Wee
LONDON/SINGAPORE, May 27 (Reuters) - World shares gained
on Tuesday as investors weighed up the latest tariff-related
news, while long-dated U.S. Treasury yields were set for their
biggest one-day fall since mid-April, mirroring a steep price
rally in super-long Japanese debt.
After a weekend call with the European Commission's
president, U.S. President Donald Trump paused until July 9 his
threatened tariff of 50% on goods entering the United States
from the European Union.
European shares added 0.4%, supported by defence
stocks, with UK shares gaining 1% following a holiday at
the start of the week.
Wall Street shares, which also saw no trade on Monday due to
a U.S. holiday, were set for solid gains too, futures gauges
showed.
"Markets are getting more accustomed to Trump's threats and
now partly assume the full threat won't immediately
materialise," Deutsche Bank analysts wrote. "There is certainly
fear fatigue."
Meanwhile, the yield on 30-year U.S. Treasuries,
which affect anything from U.S. government borrowing costs to
home mortgage rates, fell 8 basis points to 4.9572%, their
lowest in a week.
The 30-year yields - at the epicentre of the market sell-off
in April following Trump's initial raft of tariffs - are still
just below 5%, near their highest since October 2023.
The move mirrored a near-20 basis point fall in yields for
Japanese 30-year debt that came after a Reuters
report on Tuesday that Tokyo will consider trimming issuance of
the super-long bonds, after recent sharp rises in yields.
"Debt sustainability is again creeping into investors minds"
regarding heavily indebted Japan, said Carsten Brzeski, global
head of macro for ING Research. "That is a spillover from the
concerns about the U.S."
A major focus for investors this week will be results
from Nvidia ( NVDA ) on Wednesday, where the AI bellwether is
expected to report a 66% jump in first-quarter revenue.
Speeches from a slew of Federal Reserve policymakers and
Friday's U.S. core PCE price index are also due, which could
provide clues on the outlook for U.S. rates.
In Asia, MSCI's broadest index of Asia-Pacific shares
outside Japan fell 0.4%, although Hong Kong's
Hang Seng Index outperformed with a gain of 0.4%.
LOSS OF CONFIDENCE
The dollar edged up 0.4% against a basket of currencies
but was still heading for a fifth straight month of
declines, which would mark its longest such losing streak since
2017.
The euro fell 0.3%, hovering near a one-month high
at $1.13549, while the yen weakened 0.6% to 143.71 per
dollar.
Trump's flip-flops on tariffs and concerns over the
worsening U.S. deficit outlook have undermined sentiment towards
U.S. assets and in turn been a drag on the dollar.
"A U.S. dollar regime change could be in the making in the
long term after it appears to have peaked recently," said David
Meier, an economist at Julius Baer.
"Erratic U.S. policymaking, the tense fiscal situation, and
large external indebtedness, against the backdrop of the twin
deficit, suggest that a weaker USD is the route of least
resistance."
And as the dollar loses some of its safe-haven appeal,
investors have instead sought alternatives such as gold, sending
prices to record highs this year.
Still, gold fell 1% to $3,307.69 an ounce as the dollar
firmed.
Oil prices were little changed on increasing expectations
that members of OPEC+ will decide to increase their output at a
meeting later this week.
Brent crude futures fell 0.4% to $64.50 a barrel.
U.S. West Texas Intermediate crude fell the same amount
to $61.26 a barrel.