Friday, June 1, 2007

TREASURIES-Bond prices down on strong jobs, Fed view

(Reuters) - NEW YORK, June 1 - U.S. government debt prices
slid on Friday, sending benchmark yields to 9-1/2-month highs,
after strong jobs and manufacturing reports all but obliterated
market expectations for a Federal Reserve interest rate cut
this year.




Apart from some weakness in a report on pending home sales,
personal spending, consumer sentiment and most other economic
data released Friday signaled that U.S. economic activity was
reaccelerating in the second quarter, analysts said.


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