GLOBAL MARKETS-US stocks mixed, Treasury yields ease from peaks

On Wall Street, the Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 234.33 points, or 0.71%, to 32,627.97, the S&P 500 lost 2.36 points, or 0.06%, to 3,913.1 and the Nasdaq Composite added 99.07 points, or 0.76%, to 13,215.24. The pan-European STOXX 600 index lost 0.76% after France imposed fresh regional lockdowns to curb the spread of the Coronavirus. MSCI's gauge of stocks across the globe shed 0.29%

NEW YORK/LONDON:Benchmark U.S. Treasury yields edged back from the highest in more than a year on Friday, as investors digested the Federal Reserve's move not to extend a temporary pandemic regulatory break expiring this month, and oil prices rebounded from severe slides.

Wall Street's main stock indexes ended mixed as bank shares fell after the Fed said it would not extend a temporary capital buffer relief put in place to ease pandemic-driven stress in the funding market.