By Deborah Levine
SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) -- Treasury prices fell on Tuesday, pushing yields up, as more media reports about the European Central Bank buying sovereign debt boosted investors' appetite for riskier assets, including stocks and the euro. "Once again we find Treasurys following [German] bunds which are off as risk-on comes into play as, so the press writes, there's a degree of 'optimism' that Greece will get the extension to its fiscal austerity program," said bond strategists at CRT Capital Group. "Too, there's attribution that bunds are suffering because of speculation that the ECB rate-cap story has legs to it." Yields on 10-year notes 10_YEAR +1.88% rose 2 basis points to 1.84%.
