Japan 10-Year Government Bonds Rise; MOF Sets Highest Coupon Since August

(Bloomberg) -- Japan's 10-year bonds rose after the
Ministry of Finance set the highest coupon since August at an
auction of benchmark debt today, ending speculation that the
government would reissue securities with a lower payout.

The ministry set a 1.9 percent coupon on 1.9 trillion yen
($15.5 billion) of the new securities after yields climbed to
their highest in almost a year last month. Brokers had asked the
government to reissue the benchmark No. 286 bond to help ease a
shortage of the debt in the repurchase market, Kazuo Katayama,
director of the ministry's finance division, said last week.


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Nymex Natural Gas Declines on Mild Weather, Ample Inventories in the U.S.

(Bloomberg) -- Natural gas in New York fell a sixth
consecutive session on forecasts for mild weather in key demand
areas and ample supplies in storage.

``We really don't have anything that's going to make a
bullish case for this market right now,'' said Edward Kennedy, a
broker with Commercial Brokerage Corp. in Miami. ``Now we're
testing the lower end.''


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