By Deborah Levine
NEW YORK (MarketWatch) -- Treasury prices remained higher and the U.S. dollar pared gains on Tuesday after a report showed U.S. housing starts fell 5% in June to a 549,000 pace. Yields on 10-year notes (UST10Y 2.92, -0.04, -1.38%) , which move inversely to prices, fell 4 basis points to 2.92%. Yields on 2-year notes (UST2YR 0.59, -0.01, -1.35%) touched a new record low. The dollar index (DXY 82.92, +0.41, +0.49%) , which tracks the greenback against a basket of six major currencies, traded at 82.971, up from 82.529 in late North American trading on Monday. The euro (CUR_EURUSD 1.2866, -0.0080, -0.6180%) bought $1.2863, down from $1.2959.
