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BOND REPORT: Treasurys Up On Housing Slowdown, Financial Pressures

By Deborah Levine Short-term Treasurys gained Tuesday, pushing yields lower for a third day, after the Commerce Department said home builders broke ground on fewer homes in July and wholesale prices jumped more than economists expected.

BONDS TOOLBOX
To Swap or Not?
Before you cash in those bonds, be sure to crunch the numbers.
Living Yield Curve
Check out our interactive living yield curve to learn how interest rates affect the economy.
Economy Watch Data:  Key Indicators | Employment | Housing | Income/Consumption | Price Indexes | Trade
NEWS & ANALYSIS
The Economy
China's Gold Is Our Gain
By Jack Hough
The Olympic host's economy will one day eclipse America's. The world will be better for it.
Shareholders Can Pay Price of Olympic Sponsorship
Pundit Watch
Waiting for a Bottom
By Will Swarts
A topsy-turvy July did little to convince our experts a corner is being turned.
Don't Be Early to Bottom-Fish Housing, Stocks
The Invisible Hand
Bailout Brouhaha
By Igor Greenwald
Why can't Hank Paulson admit that we've already co-signed for Freddie and Fannie?
Foreign Oil Cheaper Than Pickens Plan
Common Sense
My Bear Market Strategy
By James B. Stewart
I'm taking profits in energy and moving into choice financials. Here are my picks.
A Summer Thaw for Frozen ARPS
The Economy
Show Me the Monetary Policy
By Paulette Miniter
Investors hope the Fed will tip its hand when it wraps up two days of meetings.
Fed Rate Cuts Fail to Rescue Economy
The Invisible Hand
Where's the Beef?
By Igor Greenwald
Protests convulse Europe. Koreans riot over beef. Meanwhile, Americans hold bake sales.

INVESTING IN BONDS
ECONOMY WATCH
Key Economic Indicators
Understanding the economy's ebb and flow can get complicated, but we've made it easy for you.
INVESTING 101
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Think figuring out how a bond works is as confounding as learning quantum physics? Then this section is for you.
YIELD CURVE
ECONOMIC CALENDAR
Time Report Estimate Actual
8:30 AM 0.2% 0.7%  
8:30 AM 0.6% 1.2%  
8:30 AM 959K 937K  
8:30 AM 0.2%  
8:30 AM 960K 965K  
8:30 AM 0.6%  
KEY INTEREST RATES
Bond Current Previous Change Change %
3 Month Bill
1.77
1.87
-0.10
-5.35
6 Month Bill
1.97
2.00
-0.03
-1.50
2 Year Note
2.30
2.33
-0.03
-1.29
5 Year Note
3.05
3.06
-0.01
-0.33
10 Year Note
3.83
3.81
0.02
0.52
30 Year Bond
4.46
4.44
0.02
0.45
*Prices as of 8/19/2008 5:01 PM
Source: S&P Comstock
 
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