* Wall St indexes barely up along with European stocks
* Yen falls vs dollar, supporting Japanese equities
* Low-risk bond yields rise as investors favor riskierassets
* Gold down; oil
By Sinead Carew
NEW YORK, Aug 15 (Reuters) - The U.S. dollar and U.S.Treasury yields rose on Tuesday while Wall Street indexes wereflat after solid retail data and North Korea's leader delayed adecision on firing missiles.
U.S. data showed the biggest increase in retail sales inseven months in July as consumers boosted purchases of motorvehicles and lifted discretionary spending, suggesting theeconomy continued to gain momentum.
North Korea's leader Kim Jong Un said he would watch theactions of the United States for a while longer before making adecision on whether to fire missiles towards the U.S. Pacificterritory of Guam, the country's official news agency said onTuesday.
But stocks did not appear to get a lift from the data andthe lull in rhetoric between the United States and Korea a dayafter the S&P 500 achieved its third 1-percent gain so far thisyear.
"Once you have a good lift in the market like yesterday,it's going to take a little more confidence that it can besustained, especially at the valuations we're at. We need tohave a little more calm down on the political front andgeopolitical side," said Omar Aguilar, chief investment officerfor equities at Charles Schwab Investment Management in SanFrancisco.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 10.03 points,or 0.05 percent, to 22,003.74, the S&P 500 gained 0.19points, or 0.01 percent, to 2,466.03 and the Nasdaq Compositeadded 0.93 points, or 0.01 percent, to 6,341.16.
The pan-European FTSEurofirst 300 index rose 0.09percent and MSCI's gauge of stocks across the globeshed 0.09 percent.
Benchmark U.S. Treasury yields hit one-week highs asinvestors pared low-risk bond holdings on signs of easingU.S.-North Korean tensions and strong domestic retail sales andregional factory activity data.
Benchmark 10-year notes last fell 10/32 in priceto yield 2.2535 percent, from 2.218 percent late on Monday.
The dollar rose to its highest level in nearly three weeksagainst a basket of major currencies after the data.
The dollar index rose 0.47 percent, with the eurodown 0.42 percent to $1.1729.
The Japanese yen weakened 0.76 percent versus the greenbackat 110.48 per dollar, while Sterling was last trading at$1.2861, down 0.79 percent on the day.
Spot gold dropped 0.7 percent to $1,272.83 an ounce.
Oil prices extended Monday's heavy sell-off, weighed down bya surge in the U.S. dollar and signs of weaker demand in China,the world's second-largest consumer.
U.S. crude fell 0.59 percent to $47.31 per barreland Brent was last at $50.41, down 0.63 percent on theday.
MSCI's broadest index of Asia-Pacific shares outside Japanended the day unchanged. But Japan's Nikkeistock index ended 1.1 percent higher, boosted by theweaker yen, more than erasing the previous days losses.
(Additional reporting by Nigel Stephenson, John Geddie and KitRees in London, Lisa Twaronite in Tokyo, Editing by Gareth Jonesand Nick Zieminski)