Treasury plans to sell 5-year `inflation' notes.

Reports that the US Treasury will announce in June 1997 that it plans to expand its experiment with inflation-indexed notes. Its plan to auction five-year notes in July 1997 and another in October; The 10-year notes that were already offered; Belief that the five-year notes will be more popular with individual investors in investment houses that specialize in derivatives or futures; Indexed securities, so far, not the blockbuster they were expected to be.