FOREX-U.S. dollar advance on Goldman, Greece worries

* Dollar up on safety bid after Goldman charges

* Euro down on persistent Greek debt plan uncertainty

* EU, IMF Greece meeting delayed; Greek debt spreads widen (Updates prices, adds comment, changes byline)

By Wanfeng Zhou

NEW YORK, April 19 (Reuters) - The U.S. dollar rose on Monday as concerns over fraud charges against Goldman Sachs and a delay in planned talks on an aid package for Greece stoked safe-haven demand.

Further Chinese measures announced over the weekend to rein in the surging real estate market added to worries about the global economic outlook and fueled risk aversion.

Stock prices worldwide came under pressure, while higher-yielding, riskier currencies such as the Australian dollar fell.

"The market is focusing on sort of the main risks to economic growth," said Jessica Hoversen, fixed income and currency analyst at MF Global Ltd in Chicago.

"You have what's going on with the financial industry. Greece continues to be a headline. People are (also) a little afraid that the Chinese economy is going to start slowing in the wake of all these measures," she added.

The dollar typically gains in times of greater aversion to risk as investors put money into Treasury securities for safety.

In afternoon New York trading, the euro traded down 0.2 percent at $1.3475 after earlier falling to $1.3415, its lowest in more than a week.

The euro zone currency also earlier fell as low as 123.18 yen, its lowest in about three weeks, before recovering to trade flat at 124.44 yen .

Traders said the 61.8 percent retracement of the February to April rally was the next support level at 122.75 yen.

Goldman Sachs Group Inc faced rising regulatory and legal pressure on Monday as allegations that the bank duped clients fueled momentum for regulatory reform on both sides of the Atlantic. For more, see [ID:nN19193616]

Investors are also worried about how a European Union-International Monetary Fund aid plan to help Greece avoid a debt default might be implemented.

Talks with EU and IMF officials, expected to start on Monday, were delayed to later in the week, Greece said, because of the volcanic ash cloud disrupting flights across Europe. [ID:nLDE63H0MA]

The premium which investors demand to buy Greek government bonds rather than German benchmark bonds rose to record levels on Monday as uncertainty over the aid package unsettled investors. [ID:nLDE63I0SB]

Against the yen , the dollar rose 0.2 percent to 92.37, after trading lower during most of the European session. The pair got a boost after a gauge of the U.S. economy's prospects compiled by The Conference Board, a private research group, hit a record high in March. [ID:nN19175994]

Technical analysts saw the next support at the 200-day moving average at around 91.35.

"It seems like we are reversing some of the risk aversion trades from this morning as people get more comfortable with the Goldman news," said Boris Schlossberg, director of FX research at GFT in New York.

"Clearly, there is a higher degree of caution. But there has been no additional bad news on Goldman. So for now, investors are in a 'see-no-evil, hear-no-evil' kind of mode."

The ICE Futures' dollar index, a gauge of the greenback's value against a basket of currencies <.DXY> rose 0.2 percent to 81.018, though it remains well below a 10-month high of 82.240 set in March.

The pound fell 0.4 percent to $1.5303 on persistent concerns that Britain's upcoming general election will produce no clear winner. Opinion polls ahead of the May 6 vote indicate growing support for the Liberal Democrats, the third party in the race. (Additional reporting by Gertrude Chavez-Dreyfuss; Editing by Diane Craft)