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Treasuries Drop Before Report That May Show Home Starts Rose

Treasuries fell, sending 10-year notes down for the first time in four days, before a government report economists said will show U.S. builders broke ground on homes at the fastest pace in eight months.

Yields climbed from the lowest level in almost four weeks on speculation today’s figures and an industry report later this week on existing home sales will show the U.S. recession is easing. Investors should unwind bets on a rally in longer- maturity Treasuries, according to a note to clients from JPMorgan Chase & Co., one of the 18 primary dealers that are required to bid at the government debt auctions.

“Yields will rebound,” said Takashi Yamamoto, chief trader in Singapore at Mitsubishi UFJ Trust & Banking Corp., part of Japan’s biggest bank. “The U.S. economy is on the way to recovery, slowly.”

The yield on the 10-year note rose three basis points to 3.5 percent as of 7:21 a.m. in London, according to BGCantor Market Data. The 3.625 percent Continue reading

July sales of new private homes at all-time high

PRIVATE home sales rocketed to a record in July as buyers defied the economic downturn to propel the property market into unprecedented territory.

Prices are also on the same track with values rising amid the rush to seal deals.

Developers sold a whopping 2,767 units of new private homes last month. This easily beat the 1,825 units sold in June, itself a number that had never been reached in the 2007 boom.

The numbers ‘almost defy belief’, said PropNex chief executive Mohamed Ismail, who described the recovery as nothing short of amazing.

The buying splurge brought new home sales in the first seven months of the year to 10,017 units. This is only about 10 per cent below the full-year Continue reading