TREASURIES-Bonds slip as stock gains hurt bid for safe-haven debt

* Bonds slip as stocks climb

* Benchmark 10-year yield edges over 2 percent

* Bonds fall, stocks rise on job growth, manufacturing gains

NEW YORK, Feb 1 (Reuters) - U.S. Treasuries ended lower on Friday as a stock market rally on job growth and improved manufacturing hurt demand for safe-haven U.S. government debt. U.S. stocks reached five-year highs after U.S. employment data - including upward revisions to job growth in November and December - and a stronger-than-expected Institute for Supply Management manufacturing survey sent the Dow industrials to 14,000 for the first time since October 2007 and the S&P to its highest point since December of that year. The strong manufacturing report had the opposite impact on bonds, which tend to do less well when stronger growth raises the possibility of higher inflation, which erodes the purchasing power of fixed-income instruments. "The ISM manufacturing report was very strong relative to expectations and U.S. Treasuries sold off on it," said Eric Stein, vice president and portfolio manager at Boston-based Eaton Vance Investment Managers. The persistent rise in stocks, with major stock indexes each up more than 1 percent, demonstrated investors' increased tolerance for risk, hurting safe-haven U.S. government debt.

Analysts said cash was coming off the sidelines and moving into equities. But they said demand for bonds would remain. For one thing, the slightly higher unemployment rate in January suggested the Federal Reserve would not back off from its latest round of quantitative easing. "When the Fed sees 7.9 percent unemployment, it's not going to lift its foot from the accelerator, and with their $85 billion purchases a month of Treasuries and mortgages, the Fed is a huge influence on the bond market," said Daniel Heckman, senior fixed income strategist at U.S. Bank Wealth Management in Minneapolis. "That will prevent any rapid increase in interest rates."

Rob Carnell, an economist with ING Bank, said the rise in unemployment vindicated for now the Fed's expansion of quantitative easing in December and should help limit the testing of 10-year yields seen over recent weeks. Five- and seven-year debt outperformed as investors anticipated more Fed purchases in these sectors. In December, the Fed announced a new bond-buying program that also shifted more of its purchases into intermediate Treasuries, helping to push those yields down at year-end. The March 2017 Eurodollar contract fell 3 basis points to 98.055. The benchmark 10-year Treasury note last traded down 13/32 in price, its yield rising to 2.04 percent from 1.99 percent on Thursday. Ten-year notes have been testing 2 percent all week, mainly on suggestions the euro zone debt crisis may be easing. "The European Central Bank and European governments have shown a willingness to backstop the financial market and financial institutions in Europe, so with every day that goes by, people like myself are more comfortable with the major European banks surviving/thriving over the next couple of years as opposed to worrying about Greece and having those kinds of conversations," said Tom Nelson, chief investment officer at New York-based Reich & Tang. The 30-year bond fell 1-2/32 in price, allowing its yield to rise to 3.23 percent from 3.17 percent late on Thursday.