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 The stock market's woes spooked currency traders
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 but prompted a quiet little party among bond investors.
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 Prices of long-term Treasury bonds moved inversely to the stock market 
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as investors sought safety amid growing evidence 
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the economy is weakening.
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 But the shaky economic outlook and the volatile stock market forced the dollar lower against major currencies.
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 The bond market got an early boost from the opening-hour sell-off in stocks.
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 That rout was triggered by UAL Corp. 's announcement late Monday
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 that the proposed management-labor buy-out had collapsed.
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 The 80-point decline in the Dow Jones Industrial Average during the morning trading session touched off a flight to safety 
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that saw investors shifting assets from stocks to Treasury bonds.
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 At its strongest, the Treasury's benchmark 30-year bond rose more than a point, or more than $10 for each $1,000 face amount.
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 As the stock market recovered some of its losses later in the day, 
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bond prices retreated.
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 But analysts said 
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the combination of a second consecutive decline in monthly durable-goods orders and lackluster mid-October auto sales helped prop up the Treasury market.
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 A slowing economy and the implication of lower inflation and interest rates tend to bolster bond prices.
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 On the surface, the decline in September durable goods 
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-- only 0.1% -- 
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didn't appear very weak. 
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But orders for non-defense capital goods, a precursor of future plant and equipment spending, were off 5.6%
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 after falling 10.3% in August.
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 Auto makers reported 
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that mid-October sales were running at an annual rate of about 5.8 million units, far less than the 6.6 million units
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 analysts had expected.
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 Taken together, 
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the auto-sales and durable-goods reports confirmed perceptions
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 that the economy is bogging down.
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 Although analysts don't expect the Federal Reserve to ease credit policy soon,
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 reports like those yesterday help build the case for lower rates.
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 Now bond investors are looking toward next week's report from national purchasing managers and the government's October employment report as potentially prompting the Fed to lower rates.
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 The stock market's precipitous drop frightened foreign investors,
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 who quickly bid the dollar lower.
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 But as stock prices recovered some of the early losses,
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 so did the U.S. currency.
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 Although dealers said
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 investors are becoming more bearish toward the dollar in the wake of the stock market's recent troubles 
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and as the U.S. economy weakens,
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 the dollar ended down only modestly.
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 In major market activity: 
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 Bond prices rose.
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 The Treasury's benchmark 30-year bond gained nearly half a point, or about $5 for each $1,000 face amount.
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 The yield on the issue slipped to 7.89%.
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 The dollar retreated.
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 In late New York trading the currency was quoted at 1.8355 marks and 141.45 yen,
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 compared with 1.8470 marks and 141.90 yen Monday.
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