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Short-term US Treasuries pare losses on auction
NEW YORK, Feb 8 (Reuters) - Short-term Treasury debt prices pared early losses on Tuesday as an auction of new U.S. government debt attracted reasonable demand, dealers said, perhaps boding well for the rest of the week's $51 billion refunding.
The sale of $22 billion in three-year Treasury notes went at a high yield of 3.47 percent. It drew bids for 2.01 times the amount on offer, down on November's 2.24 ratio, but in line with the 2.00 average of previous sales.
Indirect bidders, including customers of primary dealers and foreign central banks, picked up $9.61 billion, or 44 percent, of the issue. That was down from November's 53-percent share, but above the overall average of 37 percent and a bit of a relief to traders amid worries that foreign demand could fall sharply.
Primary dealers took $12.14 billion of the sale.
The current three-year note <US3YT=RR> recouped earlier losses to trade steady at 3.43 percent. The benchmark 10-year note <US10YT=RR> was 7/32 firmer in price, lowering its yield to 4.03 percent from 4.06 percent.