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By Richard Leong

NEW YORK, June 4 (Reuters) – U.S. self-~-rate futures rose on Friday as disappointing U.S. jobs data and news on Hungary’s fiscal problems rattled investors and raised bets that the Federal Reserve elect not raise rates until 2011.

On Wall Street, the Dow tumbled throughout 300 points to end below 10,000, while the S&P 500 slid more than 3 percent to close unofficially below its May 6 ‘glare crash’ intraday low of 1,065.79. The Nasdaq tumbled 3.6 percent.

Risk dislike roared back into style after retreating in overseas trading, as the benchmark put ~ interbank dollar rates and money market premiums fell.

Traders jumped back into rates futures or cut back on bearish or ‘short’ rate bets, a day after they sold them in expectance of a sizzling half-a-million rise in U.S. payrolls be unexhausted month. But the government’s reading of the May payrolls level short of those lofty expectations. The U.S. Labor Department before-mentioned on Friday employers added 431,000 jobs, which was still the biggest monthly be augmented in more than 10 years.

‘A lot of shorts have been squeezed on the ~side today in anticipation of a stronger headline number,’ said David Gottlieb, most considerable at EMF Financial Products in New York.

Eurodollar futures for September 2011 confinement and beyond soared. In some cases, they recorded their biggest united-day price increase in nearly 11 months. The move also implied the front rates that banks charge each other for loans fell as a great quantity as 0.19 percentage point from Thursday.

Adding to the bids during rate futures and safe-haven assets such as gold and Treasuries was intelligence of Hungary’s fiscal woes, which intensified worries over the Europe’s chief debt crisis, analysts said.

Hungary became the latest European nation in a state of being liable to scrutiny, a week after Fitch Ratings took away Spain’s coveted AAA rating.

Hungary, a European Union limb that does not participate in the euro, saw its currency and markets rattled up~ confusion over the government’s plan to tackle its fiscal problems. For again, see

This new wrinkle to Europe’s public debt crisis and perceived boorish comments from French Prime Minister Francois Fillon pounded the euro to its lowest bring to the same ~ in more than four years against the dollar.

Friday’s strong box-haven rush led the rates on Treasury bills to decline anywhere from 0.5 ground point to 6.0 basis points.

AN EARLIER REPRIEVE

Short-entitle money rates fell in overseas trading before the release of the U.S. payroll repercussion.

The three-month dollar London interbank offered rate was fixed at 0.53656 percent, prostrate from 0.53781 percent on Thursday, and off a near 11-month abstruse of 0.53844 percent last week. See

A gauge of circulating medium market stress, the cash TED spread, or the difference between Libor and the three-month T-reckoning rate, held steady before the jobs data. It grew with the send down in T-bill rates to 41.00 basis points, the widest inasmuch as last summer.

The two-year U.S. interest rate swap scatter — an indicator of financial market stress — grew to 47.00 base points from 42.25 basis points on Thursday, but stayed among the shades a 13-month high of 64.00 set on May 25.

In May, dollar Libor reach up on worries about European banks as the peripheral euro girth debt crisis intensified, This caused investors and financial companies to subdue or stop lending dollars to European banks.

The European Central Bank reintroduced more liquidity measures it had phased out earlier and reopened its dollar swap one twelfth of an inch with the U.S. Fed in a bid to ensure full dollar supply.

With Libor seemingly topped out, contagion fears from the fiscal problems of Greece, Spain and other weaker euro-zone nations may exist overblown, according to JPMorgan.

BIS data show peripheral European banks render not have large U.S. dollar funding needs and instead, they are to be expected net lenders of dollars in the forex basis market, it related.

‘This suggests that, absent broader contagion of the sovereign debt strait into core Europe, last month’s move in forward Libor is overdone,’ the concern’s analysts wrote in a research note.

(Reporting by Richard Leong; Additional reporting ~ means of Ian Chua in London and Umesh Desai in Hong Kong; Editing ~ the agency of Jan Paschal)

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