NEW YORK: US Treasury debt extended price losses on Thursday after data showing the number of Americans filing new claims for jobless benefits unexpectedly fell last week.
Benchmark 10-year Treasury notes were trading with a yield of 1.70 percent, up from a high yield of 1.68 percent in an auction of $24 billion of the notes on Wednesday.
Thirty-year bonds were trading 9/32 lower in price to yield 2.77 percent, up from 2.75 percent late on Wednesday.
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