GLOBAL MARKETS-Dollar hits 14-year high; oil dips in choppy trade

By Reuters / November 16, 2016 / in.investing.com / Article Link

* Dollar index hits 14-year high, last little changed

* Bond selling resumes after brief pause

* Yield jump stops stocks in their tracks (Updates with U.S. open, changes comment, dateline from previous LONDON)

By Rodrigo Campos

NEW YORK, Nov 16 (Reuters) - The U.S. dollar index dipped after hitting a near 14-year high on Wednesday while oil prices swung in a volatile session as traders were caught between a build in U.S. stockpiles and the chance of an output cut.

Declines in bank stocks more than offset gains in the technology sector on Wall Street. The S&P 500 had ended on Tuesday at a 10-week high while the Dow industrials set a record close, fueled by a post-U.S. election rally.

"We had a pretty sharp rally off the election and it was pretty impressive, but it seems pretty clear to me that sort of emotional reaction, if you will, is now long off," said Randy Frederick, vice president of trading and derivatives for Charles Schwab (NYSE:SCHW) in Austin, Texas.

The dollar has surged in the past week, tracking Treasury yields higher on the expectation increased U.S government spending could trigger higher inflation.

The Dow Jones industrial average .DJI fell 72.62 points, or 0.38 percent, to 18,850.44, the S&P 500 .SPX lost 5.42 points, or 0.25 percent, to 2,174.97 while the Nasdaq Composite .IXIC added 19.73 points, or 0.37 percent, to 5,295.35.

The pan-European FTSEurofirst 300 index .FTEU3 fell 0.21 percent, while MSCI's gauge of stocks across the globe .MIWD00000PUS edged down 0.1 percent.

VOLATILE OIL, STRONG GREENBACK

Oil prices dipped in choppy trading as the market weighed Russia's comments about a possible meeting with Saudi Arabia about output cuts against a bigger-than-expected U.S. crude storage build. crude CLc1 was last nearly flat at $45.84 a barrel and Brent LCOc1 traded at $46.90, down 0.1 percent on the day. Crude had risen more than 1 percent after a statement from the Russian energy minister.

U.S. President-elect Donald Trump's plans to cut taxes and increase infrastructure spending could boost economic activity while adding to the deficit, and his proposals to deport illegal immigrants and impose tariffs on cheap imports are seen driving inflation higher.

That prospect triggered a selloff in U.S. bonds that lifted yields across the board, and raised expectations that U.S. interest rates will rise faster than previously anticipated, giving support to the dollar.

U.S. interest rate futures are pricing in an 81 percent chance of a rate hike at the next Fed meeting, scheduled for December.

The dollar index, a measure of the greenback's value against a basket of currencies, hit 100.57 .DXY , its highest since April 2003. It was last little changed on the day.

The euro EUR= fell 0.2 percent to $1.0702, while the yen JPY= was little changed at 109.12 per dollar, having earlier fallen to 109.75. The greenback rose to an eight-year high against the Chinese yuan of 6.8798 yuan CNY=CFXS .

"The market has gone a bit too far ahead of itself. It looks vulnerable for a short-term pullback," said Mazen Issa, senior currency strategist at TD Securities in New York, referring to the dollar rally.

Weaker-than-forecast U.S. producer prices and industrial production data on Wednesday supported Treasury prices and capped dollar gains. 10-year notes US10YT=RR last rose 4/32 in price to yield 2.2243 percent, down from 2.238 percent on Tuesday.

Spot gold XAU= was little changed at $1,227.00 an ounce. U.S. gold futures GCcv1 rose 0.20 percent to $1,226.90 an ounce.

Copper CMCU3 fell 1.3 percent to $5,456.00 a tonne.

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