* Economy worries hit markets, China bounce fizzles
* European stocks down 2.5 percent, Japan down 3 percent
* Dollar weaker, commodities slide, oil off 2.5 percent
(Updates prices, adds German economic sentiment)
By Jeremy Gaunt, European Investment Correspondent
LONDON, Nov 11 (Reuters) - Economic gloom overpowered
financial markets again on Tuesday, sending stock and commodity
prices lower as ebullience about China's $600 billion stimulus
plan fizzled out.
Bad news from corporate America -- General Motors <GM.N>
shares at a 62-year low, Goldman Sachs <GS.N> seen posting a
first-ever quarterly loss, and No. 2 U.S. electronics retailer
Circuit City's <CC.N> bankruptcy filing -- overwhelmed any
optimism.
The dollar was generally weaker with the euro getting a
brief bounce from an improvement in German economic sentiment.
"The support we saw in the early part of yesterday's session
off the back of the Chinese economic stimulus plan is looking to
have been rather short lived," Matt Buckland, dealer at CMC
Markets, wrote in a note.
"Worrying corporate news from the U.S. plus suggestions that
the recession will be longer and deeper than previously thought
are adding to the downside."
The pan-European FTSEurofirst 300 <> stock index was
down 2.4 percent, following a 3 percent loss on Japan's Nikkei
average <>.
Emerging market stocks as measured by MSCI <.MSCIEF> lost
around 3.3 percent, taking that index into negative territory in
what would be the fifth month in a row for losses.
The emerging market index has lost nearly 55 percent of its
value so far this year while its developed market counterpart
<.MIW00000PUS> has lost 41 percent.
The worries about economic and corporate growth also spread
to commodities, which had rallied strongly on Monday because of
the Chinese stimulus package.
Oil <CLc1> lost 2.5 percent to about $60.70 a barrel. Gold
<XAU=> pared 0.5 percent to around $742 an ounce and London
copper <MCU3> tumbled 2.3 percent.
Demand for commodities -- and hence prices -- generally
falls when economies slow.
WEAKER DOLLAR
The dollar was generally weaker. It was down about a quarter
of a percent at 97.74 yen <JPY=> and the euro gained about 0.2
percent to $1.2731 <EUR=>.
"Major reactions in the market may be delayed until after
the outcome of the G20 meeting at the weekend," said Hideki
Amikura, deputy general manager of the forex section at Nomura
Trust Bank on Tokyo.
Leaders of the Group of 20 developed and biggest emerging
economies are to meet next weekend in Washington to discuss the
deteriorating world economy.
Euro zone government debt was mixed.
Two-year bond yields <EU2YT=RR> were 3 basis points lower at
2.374 percent, with 10-year yields <EU10YT=RR> 3 basis points
higher at 3.701 percent.
(Editing by Mike Peacock)
