By Deborah Levine
NEW YORK (MarketWatch) -- Treasury prices and the dollar extended losses on Wednesday after the Institute for Supply Management's index on manufacturing activity rose to 56.3 in August from 55.5 in July. Economists surveyed by MarketWatch expected the index to slide to 53.2. Yields on 10-year notes (UST10Y 2.53, +0.06, +2.23%) , which move inversely to prices, rose 11 basis points to 2.58%, after being up by just 6 basis points before the data. The dollar index (DXY 82.40, -0.80, -0.96%) , a measure of the U.S. unit against a basket of currencies, fell to 82.292, from 82.335 before the data and down from 83.097 Tuesday. The euro (EURUSD 1.2826, +0.0141, +1.1116%) rose to $1.2848, from $1.2836 earlier and compared to $1.2679 late Tuesday.
