Over the next three days the Treasury will sell more than $29 billion of new three-year and ten-year notes and 30-year bonds.
Among note issues, the 8 3/4 percent ten-year notes were offered at 99 5/8, up 22/32, to yield 8.80 percent.
Among note issues, the 7 3/4 percent ten-year notes were offered at 99 9/ 32, down 3/8, to yield 7.85 percent.
Among note issues, the 8 1/2 percent ten-year notes were offered at 102 7/8, up 9/32, to yield 8.07 percent.
Among secondary Treasury note issues, the 8 percent ten-year notes were offered at 98 9/32, up 3/32, to yield 8.25 percent.
In late trading, the 8 percent ten-year notes were offered at 99 6/32, up 19/32, to yield 8.12 percent.
Among note issues, the 8 3/4 percent ten-year notes were offered at 98 30/ 32, down 10/32, to yield 8.91 percent.
Prices for the three-year and ten-year notes to be offered by the Treasury at next week's auctions also firmed.
The ten-year notes were offered at a price to yield 8.99 percent in when-issued trading, down from 9.02 percent on Wednesday.
Though, on the surface of it, the trading company appeared to be in good shape, it was overloaded with five- and ten-year notes.