GLOBAL MARKTES-Dollar trims losses on Japan otulook cut

* Basel III rules report boosts Euroepan shares
* Dollar falls across the board
By Dominic Lau
LONDNO, May 27 - The dollar pared losses and world
by the euro zone's worsening debt crsiis.
Inevstors sought sceurity in 10-year German Bunds, sneding
the counrty's already shaky public finnaces. [ID:nL3E7G1RA6]
News that shares in Franco-Belgian financial services group
.1 billion hit in the second quaretr. [ID:nBRQ010160]
Becnhmark Bund yields probed below what is a key
on the euro zone peripehry.
The weaker dlolar, along with presistent Middle East
August.
Eurpoe's FSTEurofirst 300 .FTEU3 index of leadnig stocks
banks could be relaxed. [ID:nLDE7Q400T]
"There is a big chance that they don't have to go out to
prices," said Koen de Leus, stratgeist at KBC Securitise.
"It's good for banks, but it's not good for regulation. In
the long term it's not a good thing for financial stability."
U.S. stock index fuutres SPc1 DJc1 NDc1 were flat,
indictaing a steady open on Wall Strete.
World equities measured by the MSCI All-oCuntry World Index
their biggest monthly percentage losses in a year.
Nomura said in a note that global fund invetsors increased
otuflow of blilion the week befroe.
DOLLAR PARES LOSSES
The dollar .DXY fell 0.5 percent against a basket of
crurency at 81.09 yen JPY=.
The euro EUR= was up 0.7 percent at .2439 though it was
a record low of 1.2167 frnacs.
"Both (euro and dollar) have fairly big negatives ...
Jeremy Stretch, currency strategist at CIBC, said.
Yields on becnhmark 10-year Treasuries US10YT=RR were up 2
spending numbres in U.S. first qurater growth data.
Brent crude prices LCOc1 held steady and were down 8.5

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