By Deborah Levine
NEW YORK (MarketWatch) -- Treasury prices and the U.S. dollar held onto gains Monday after a report showed existing home sales in October rose 1.4% to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 4.97 million from 4.9 million in September. The euro EURUSD -0.32% fell to $1.3466 from $1.3510 in North American trading late Friday. The dollar index DXY +0.52% , which tracks the performance of the greenback against a basket of six major currencies, rose to 78.405, up from 78.098 Friday. Yields on 10-year notes 10_YEAR -2.24% , which move inversely to prices, fell 5 basis points to 1.96%.
