For a third day treasury two-year notes has shown a rise as the Federal Reserve bought $7 billion in government securities and decline equities stoked demand for the relative safety of fixed-income assets. 
The two-year note yield has been pushed by the advance to the lowest level in more than a month. Before this week’s auction of the securities there has been a decline in ten-year notes, and in more than two weeks the yield gap with two- year debt was at the steepest level. In June there has been a contraction in the U.S. service industries from retailers to homebuilders for the ninth straight month.
According to BGCantor Market Data, there has been a fall of five basis points in the two-year note yield, or 0.05 percentage points, to 0.94 percent at 12:50 p.m. in New York. The rate has touched 0.9252%, which has been the lowest level since June 4. The price of the 1.125% security due in June 2011 has increased 3/32, or 94 cents per $1,000 face amount, to 100 12/32. There has been an increase of two basis points in 10-year note yield to 3.52%.
