Nikkei rises another 1.2%, reversing earlier losses
Dollar up 1.8% on yen after BOJ turned cautious on hikes
STOXX up 0.77%, banking index up 1.6%
Nasdaq futures 0.7% higher, 10-year Treasury yield up 4bps
German 10- year yield up 9 bps at 2.27%
Brent up over 2%
(Updates prices at 1230 GMT)
By Wayne Cole and Alun John
SYDNEY/LONDON, Aug 7(Reuters) - European and Asian share markets rose on Wednesday, led by another bounce in the Nikkei, as the Bank of Japan unexpectedly turned cautious on rate hikes amidst market volatility, inducing a sharp fall in the yen.
Europe's broad Stoxx 600 index .STOXX rose 1.3% , and Nasdaq futures NQc1 were up 1.2%, having edged lower earlier in the day on a 12% dive in AI darling Super Micro Computer SMCI.O after it missed earnings estimates.
Sentiment had looked a little shaky early in Asia, but Bank of Japan (BOJ) Deputy Governor Shinichi Uchida said in a speech to business leaders the central bank will not raise interest rates when financial markets are unstable, boosting risk assets.
That helped the Nikkei .N225 to gain 1.19% following Tuesday's 10% rally, suggesting investors were finding their footing after the recent market rout. The index slumped 13% on Monday.
In addition, the dollar jumped 1.85% to 147.03 yen JPY=EBS , moving away from the 141.675 trough hit on Monday, though it remains far below its July peak of 161.96.
The Japanese currency is closely watched at present because its rapid appreciation has been blamed, in part, for turbulence across global markets, as its rally forced investors to unwind carry trades in which they had borrowed cheaply in yen to invest in higher-performing assets elsewhere.
A sense is building among investors and analysts that the swings in markets, which reached their peak on Monday when global share benchmarks plunged, do not prefigure more sustained moves.
"I think you need to look at what didn't happen on Monday to get a sense of where this fits relative to other big periods of volatility ... in other crises you'd see the market for interbank funding get a lot tighter, and that didn't happen, gold didn't perform, and commodities didn't collapse," said Tim Graf, head of macro strategy for Europe at State Street Global Markets.
"For me this was a very extreme position washout taking place against the backdrop of lightly staffed trading desks and low liquidity, but it was nothing worse than that.
"From here I think we start to reverse some of those moves, though not in full. I don't think you're going to see dollar/yen back at the highs at which it was," Graf added.
EARNINGS MISS In Europe, banking stocks, which have taken a bruising in recent days, were among the top gainers, up 2.4% .SX7P , while Novo Nordisk NOVOb.CO , Europe's largest company by market cap, caught the eye falling 3.6% after reporting weaker-than-expected second-quarter profits.
Earlier in the day, MSCI's broadest index of Asia-Pacific shares outside Japan .MIAPJ0000PUS jumped 1.8%.
With safe-haven assets in less demand, government bond yields rose. U.S. 10-year yields US10YT=RR rose 5 basis points to 3.939%, and was well off Monday's low of 3.667%, and the yield on the German 10 year Bund rose nearly 10 bps to 2.28%, now nearly 20 bps off Friday's low.
Two-year Treasury yields US2YT climbed back to 4.008% from a deep trough of 3.654%, as markets scaled back wagers on an intra-meeting emergency rate cut from the Federal Reserve.
Futures now imply 105 basis points of easing this year, compared with 125 basis points at one stage during Monday's turmoil, while a 50 basis-point cut in September was seen as a 73% chance. FEDWATCH
Fears of an imminent U.S. recession had also faded a little as a run of economic data still pointed to solid economic growth in the current quarter.
The Atlanta Fed's much-watched GDPNow estimate is that gross domestic product is running at an annual pace of 2.9%.
In commodity markets, gold prices also turned higher, up 0.5% at $2,401 an ounce XAU= , and short of last week's $2,477 top.
Oil prices remained volatile as concerns about waning global demand sparred with the risk of supply disruptions in the Middle East, but gained in European trading.
Brent LCOc1 rose 2.24% to $78.19 per barrel, while U.S. crude CLc1 was up 2.3% to $74.87 a barrel.
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