TREASURIES-U.S. bonds slip; heavy global issuance cited

... on the defensive entering the New York session," said John Briggs, U.S. rates strategist at RBS Securities in Stamford, Connecticut. The U.S. third-quarter employment cost index showed that U.S. labor costs rose just 0.4 percent in the third ...

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