Monday, May 7, 2007

TREASURIES-Long bonds gain on ebbing inflation view

(Reuters) - NEW YORK, May 7 - Long-dated U.S. Treasury bond prices rose on Monday as investors took last week's soft jobs data as a sign inflation was ebbing and bet the Federal Reserve would acknowledge that at a monetary policy meeting this week.

But shorter-dated paper traded little changed after a $14 billion sale of three-year notes, the last planned sale of this maturity, drew lackluster demand.


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