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US Treasury yields flat-to-higher after TIPS auction
U.S. government debt prices fell on Friday, pushing yields slightly higher after a mediocre five-year Treasury Inflation-Protected Securities (TIPS) auction on Thursday, when U.S. stocks closed at record highs.
The benchmark 10-year Treasury note (U.S.: US10Y) yielded 1.954 percent on Friday, after closing at 1.947 percent on Thursday in choppy trade.
Thirty-year Treasury notes yielded around 2.652 percent on Friday, after closing at 2.637 percent on Thursday.
The Treasury Department sold $18 billion of five-year TIPS to average demand on Thursday. The issue was overshadowed by AT&T (NYSE: T), which offered $17.5 billion to bond markets, according to Reuters.
TheNasdaq Composite (NASDAQ: .NDX) outperformed the other major indices on Thursday to set an all-time closing record, topping the previous high of 5,048.62 set in March 2000.
On the data front on Friday, the focus will be on durable goods orders figures for March at 8:30 a.m. ET. A moderate bounce back is forecast, after February's disappointing 1.4 percent month-on-month drop.
Greece worries are still in focus, as euro zone finance ministers gathered in Latvia to discuss prospects for a bailout deal with Athens. However, Greek yields are way below peaks seen earlier in the week, with the 10-year bond currently around 12.2 percent, having spiked close to 14 percent.
Neither ministers involved nor analysts were holding out hope for a Greece deal on Friday . German Finance Minister, Wolfgang Schaeuble, said he did not believe there would be decisive progress on Greece in Riga, while his Austrian counterpart said he was "quite annoyed" with the lack of progress over reforms, Reuters reported.
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