What Gave Treasuries A Lift Today?

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Stocks finished lower and
Treasuries finished higher today.

Equity

The Nasdaq
future
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was up 5.00 to close at 1265.00. The S&P 500 contract
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was down .20 to close at 986.40, and the Dow
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was down 10
at 9178..

Fixed Income

U.S. Treasuries had a bit of a bounce today, after the US
Treasury announced that it would auction $ 4 billion less than the market was
expecting, or $ 60 billion.
The 10 year
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was up 0-130 to close at 111-130; the 30 year
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was up by -30 to close at 108-00; and the five year note was up 0-075 at 111-310
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Metals

August gold
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was down by .40 to close
at 355.80. Silver
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was up by  1.0 at 507.5. Copper was
down by .10 at 80.10
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, and aluminum
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was up at .6500..

Energy

August crude
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oil was up .46 to
close at 30.74. Natural gas was down .0073 to close at 4.620
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Currencies

The USD index
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was up  by .80 to close
at 96.30.