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Helping to drive Treasury gains Monday was month-end index extension buying.

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"You do have some month-end effect going on," Mr. Macey said.

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"Until month-end the index will likely hover around 9,500, reflecting both optimism on the nuclear resolution and pessimism towards future corporate earnings," said Mitsushige Akino, chief fund manager at Ichiyoshi Investment Management.

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After rebuttals later in September, an appeals verdict is expected by month-end.

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Yields, which move inversely to prices, were actually up modestly Wednesday despite typical month-end buying.

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Traders were also talking about a host of other reasons they are scooping up U.S. government debt—from month-end buying and bad economic data, to Hurricane Irene—all of which are expected to keep safe-haven Treasurys well bid through the next several days.

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Also today you are seeing month-end buying bringing in buyers on any dip we have seen, said Jason Rogan , director of U.S. government trading in New York at Guggenheim Partners LLC.

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Leaving aside a month-end peak, one-week interbank rates have been stable below 3.5% for the last two months.

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Additional support came from some fund managers who bought securities to match the month-end adjustments of the benchmark bond indexes.

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After rebuttals later in September, an appeals verdict is expected by month-end.

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