GLOBAL MARKETS-Stocks Tiptoe Towards US Manufacturing, Jobs Data

GLOBAL MARKET - SINGAPORE. Bond yields drifted higher on Tuesday, while currencies and Asia's stock markets steadied as investors waited on a raft of data to determine how deeply the U.S. can cut interest rates.

Ten-year Treasury yields were slightly higher at 3.919% and two-year yields rose a basis point to 3.935% as trade resumed in Asia following a U.S. holiday overnight.