Treasuries rose, pushing rates on the three-month bill negative for the first time … The Treasury sold $27 billion of three-month bills yesterday at a discount rate of 0.005 percent, the lowest since it starting auctioning the securities in 1929. The U.S. also sold $30 billion of four-week bills today at zero percent for the first time since it began selling the debt in 2001.
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WSJ What's News Late Edition, March 10, 2010by The Wall Street Journal 10 Mar 2010 at 4:51pm
Stocks inch higher with the NASDAQ posting the biggest gain; wholesale inventories drop unexpectedly in January as demand surged; and the government posts its largest monthly deficit ever.
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