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US Treasury yields lower as investors monitor virus, vaccines and stimulus
U.S. government debt prices were higher Tuesday morning as investors continued to seek safety despite a spree of promising coronavirus vaccine and treatment trials, as fears over the coronavirus surge in the U.S. lingered. At around 4:40 a.m. ET, the yield on the benchmark 10-year Treasury note was lower at 0.6135% and the yield on the 30-year Treasury bond edged down to 1.3122%. Yields move inversely to prices.Risk sentiment was buoyed on Monday after an experimental vaccine developed by AstraZeneca and Oxford University produced an immune response in an early-stage clinical trial. A vaccine from U.S. drugmaker ... (full story)