By Ben Eisen
NEW YORK (MarketWatch) -- Treasury prices inched higher Monday ahead of speeches from three Federal Reserve officials as the government debt market continues to watch for signals about when and how the central bank may scale back its bond-buying program. The benchmark 10-year note 10_YEAR -0.33% yield, which moves inversely to price, fell half a basis point on the day to 2.699%. The 30-year bond 30_YEAR -0.21% yield fell half a basis point to 3.791%, and the 5-year note 5_YEAR -0.59% yield fell 1 basis point to 1.340%. New York Fed President William Dudley will speak at 12:15 p.m. Eastern; Philadelphia Fed President Charles Plosser speaks at 1:30 p.m.; and Minneapolis Fed President Narayana Kocherlakota will give a talk at 7:45 p.m. Federal Reserve Bank of Boston President Eric Rosengren spoke earlier in the day about the risks to financial stability posed by large international banks.
