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US Treasuries prices gained on Wednesday as investors rebalanced portfolios before year-end, though the Treasury Department saw weak demand for a $34 billion sale of five-year notes. The rally was seen as likely prompted by portfolio rebalancing with no major catalysts to drive market direction.
"The buying has been strong since the early morning," said Thomas Simons, a money market economist at Jefferies in New York, noting it is likely "pressure for quarter-end, year-end, building up." Benchmark 10-year notes gained 15/32 in price to yield 2.413 percent, down from 2.237 percent late on Tuesday.
Trading volumes were thin, however, with many traders and investors away after Monday's Christmas holiday and before next Monday's New Year's Day holiday. The rally did not extend to the government's five-year auction. The ratio of bids to the amount of five-year Treasuries offered was 2.36, the lowest reading since June.
It came after the United States also sold $26 billion in two-year notes on Tuesday to below-average demand. The ratio of bids to the amount of two-year Treasuries offered was 2.52, the lowest reading in a year. The Treasury will also auction $28 billion in seven-year notes on Thursday, the final sale of $88 billion in coupon-bearing supply this week.
Short- and intermediate-dated debt is highly sensitive to interest rate hikes and the notes have also been under pressure since October on expectations that the Treasury will increase supply next year as the Federal Reserve reduces its bond purchases. "The two- to five-year space has been underperforming, partly on the Fed and the expectations of hikes and partly on expectations that supply's going to start to increase," said Gennadiy Goldberg, an interest rate strategist at TD Securities in New York.

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