The yield on the benchmark 10-year Japanese government bond slipped back into negative territory Wednesday, tracking an overnight fall in U.S. Treasury yields.

The yield on the No. 356, 0.1 percent issue, the main barometer of long-term interest rates, ended interdealer trading at minus 0.020 percent, after closing at zero percent on Tuesday.

The debt also drew buying following a Bank of Japan bond-purchase operation.

The price of the March futures contract for 10-year bonds rose 0.29 point to 152.11 on the Osaka Exchange.

==Kyodo

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