GLOBAL MARKETS-Stocks climb on Huawei extension, buoying U.S. Treasuries

(Adds oil, gold settlement prices)
* New U.S. 90-day extension to Huawei refuels equity rally
* U.S. Treasury prices rise on equity rally
* World share index less than 1% from record high
* Dollar slips as does crude as trade tensions remain

By Herbert Lash
NEW YORK, Nov 18 (Reuters) - Global equity markets edged
higher on Monday, lifting prices of U.S. government debt, as a
new 90-day extension allowing U.S. companies to do business with
China's Huawei eased the latest spike in investor angst over
U.S.-Sino trade tensions.
The three major U.S. stock indexes set fresh intraday highs
while MSCI's gauge of equity performance worldwide rose to
within 1% of a record peak set in January 2018.
The stock rally reversed earlier losses sparked by
conflicting reports about the outlook for ending the 16-month
trade war between the world's two largest economies that has
weighed on global growth and roiled capital markets.
The U.S. Commerce Department added Huawei Technologies Co
Ltd HWT.UL to an economic blacklist in May, citing security
concerns, but has allowed it to purchase some American-made
goods in a series of 90-day license extensions. Early on Monday, a CNBC report cast fresh doubts about the
prospects for a phase I of a U.S.-China trade deal, saying the
mood in Beijing was pessimistic due to President Donald Trump's
reluctance to roll back tariffs on Chinese imports. The report halted earlier rallies in Europe and Asia after
Chinese state media Xinhua over the weekend said that Washington
and Beijing had held "constructive" talks. "Progress doesn't happen in a straight line and that is
starting to frustrate people today," said Scott Ladner, chief
investment officer at Horizon Investments in Raleigh, North
Carolina. "It feels very herky-jerky."
MSCI's all-country world index .MIWD00000PUS of global
stock performance gained 0.13%.
In Europe, the pan-European STOXX 600 index .STOXX closed
down 0.01% while the FTSEurofirst 300 index .FTEU3 of leading
regional shares fell 0.04%.
On Wall Street, the Dow Jones Industrial Average .DJI rose
28.14 points, or 0.1%, to 28,033.03. The S&P 500 .SPX gained
2.04 points, or 0.07%, to 3,122.5 and the Nasdaq Composite
.IXIC added 14.29 points, or 0.17%, to 8,555.12.
The safe-haven Japanese yen gained and gold prices erased
losses to settle slightly higher.
Investors hope that tariffs the United States and China have
imposed on each other's goods will be rolled back as they are
seen as harming global economic growth.
Overnight in Asia, stocks closed higher.
Tokyo's Nikkei .N225 gained 0.49% and China's blue-chip
CSI300 index .CSI300 rose 0.8% after the People's Bank of
China in a surprise move said it was lowering the seven-day
reverse repurchase rate. The dollar index .DXY fell 0.22%, with the euro EUR= up
0.22% to $1.1074. The yen strengthened 0.12% versus the
greenback at 108.65 per dollar.
The price of benchmark 10-year U.S. Treasury notes
US10YT=RR rose 7/32 to push yields down to 1.8101%.
U.S. gold futures GCv1 settled up 0.2% at $1,471.90 an
ounce.
Concerns about plentiful crude supplies in 2020 weighed on
the oil market, which expects the Organization of the Petroleum
Exporting Countries to extend production cuts in early December
to help avoid a new global glut.
Brent crude futures LCOc1 fell 86 cents to settle at
$62.44 per barrel. West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude CLc1
slid 67 cents to settle down at $57.05 a barrel.

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