Dollar droops with US yields, stocks mixed amid rates, election risks
Updates prices at 0525 GMT
Greenback, 10-year Treasury yields retreat from 3-month peaks
Surprise drop in US jobless claims continues run of robust data
Hawkish Fed bets to be tested by monthly payrolls data on Nov. 1
Mega-cap earnings due next week from Alphabet, Amazon, Meta
By Kevin Buckland
TOKYO, Oct 25 (Reuters) -The dollar was on the defensive on Friday following its biggest drop in a month against major peers, as it tracked a retreat in U.S. yields from nearly three-month highs after depressed Treasury prices drew buyers.
Asian stocks were mixed, with some markets tracking Wall Street gains from overnight, while Japan's Nikkei .N225 dropped 1% after the yen rebounded strongly from a three-week trough to the dollar and with the coalition government at risk of losing its lower house majority in an election on Sunday.
Hong Kong's Hang Seng .HSI and a mainland blue chips index .CSI300 each rose about 1%. Australian .AXJO and South Korean .KS11 stock benchmarks were flat.
For the week though, the dollar was set for a fourth straight weekly rise and the 10-year Treasury yield for a sixth, driven by a run of robust U.S. economic data that signals a very patient approach to Federal Reserve interest rate cuts.
Surging bond yields have spooked stock investors, putting the MSCI world equities index .MIWO00000PUS on track for a 1.2% slide this week.
Crude oil is set for a weekly advance amid simmering risks to output from the conflict in the Middle East. Safe-haven gold is headed for a third winning week.
A parade of potentially pivotal events begin next week with the monthly U.S. payrolls report on Friday. The U.S. presidential election follows on Nov. 5, with a Fed policy decision two days later.
Earnings reports are also due from such mega-cap tech names as Alphabet, Amazon, Apple, Meta, and Microsoft.
"There remains a degree of caution in the markets, with the performance of equities mixed due to the combination of macroeconomic, earnings and political risk on the horizon," said Kyle Rodda, senior financial market analyst at Capital.com.
In terms of economic data overnight though, "the narrative was a positive one and opened up the room for a touch of risk-taking," Rodda said.
Weekly data showed an unexpected drop in new applications for U.S. unemployment aid overnight.
A much stronger-than-expected payrolls report for September was the catalyst for a repricing of the Fed's rate-cutting path since the start of this month.
The 10-year Treasury yield US10YT=RR slid to 4.1742% on Friday, following a four basis-point slump in the previous session. It touched a three-month top of 4.26% on Wednesday.
The dollar index =USD, which measures the currency against six major peers, was little changed at 104.03 after retreating from Wednesday's three-month peak of 104.57. For the week though, it has advanced 0.54%.
The dollar weakened 0.18% to 151.555 yen JPY=EBS, as more warnings from Japanese officials to speculators about betting against the yen helped support the currency.
The euro EUR=EBS edged down 0.04% to $1.0823. Sterling GBP=D3 lost 0.08% to $1.2966.
A rise in speculation of a Donald Trump win in some betting markets has supported U.S. yields and the dollar in recent days, due to the Republican candidate's inflationary tax and tariff policies.
Gold XAU= eased slightly on Friday to $2,728 per ounce, but was on track to eke out a 0.29% gain this week.
Brent crude futures LCOc1 added 0.24% to $74.56 a barrel, while U.S. West Texas Intermediate crude CLc1 was up 0.23% to $70.36.
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Reporting by Kevin Buckland; Editing by Sonali Paul and Christopher Cushing
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