The benchmark 10-year US Treasury note's yield backed off from Thursday's eight-month low of 3.68 percent and climbed to 3.77 percent after the consumer confidence news. The 10-year note's price fell 17/32 to 101-27/32.
The two-year note shed 4/32 to 100-6/32, while its yield rose to 1.524 percent from 1.46 percent on Thursday. The 30-year bond fell almost a full point to 109-29/32; its yield rose to 4.721 percent from 4.66 percent late Thursday.
On the New York Mercantile Exchange, April crude fell 59 cents to end at US$36.19 a barrel after the US Senate decided to bar oil shipments to the nation's emergency crude stockpile.
COMEX April gold fell US$5.40 to end at US$395.60 an ounce. May silver reached US$7.29 an ounce overnight, the highest futures price on a spot continuation basis since the middle of 1988. But it fell to US$6.94, and ended down 13 cents at US$7.063 an ounce on COMEX.
In overseas trading, the FTSE Eurotop 300, which tracks the region's top 300 blue chips, closed up 0.28 percent at 989.26. Tokyo's Nikkei average fell for a third straight session to close down 1.19 percent, or 134.29 points, at 11,162.75 on Friday after the bombings in Spain raised security fears.
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