The US treasury will sell
$58 billion of 3 year notes on Tuesday, $39 billion up 10 year notes (9 year and 11 month actually) on Wednesday, and $22 billion of 30 year bonds (29 year and 11 month actually) on Thursday
The size of the 10 and 30-year issues are unexpectedly cut by 3 billion each. Cash flow must be better for the treasury. Either that of they will look to increase the shorter-term bill issues.
Last month, the 10-year note auction was not that great. Here were the results vs the 6 month averages and the WI level at the time of the auction.
High yield at 3.960%WI level at the time of the auction 3.929%Tail +3.1 basis points versus 6-month average of 0.1 basis pointsBid to Cover 2.32X vs 6-month average of 2.52XDealers 17.88% vs 6-month average of 15.5%Directs 15.9% vs 6-month average of 17.1%Indirects 66.2% versus 6- month average of 67.5%
AUCTION GRADE: D-
This article was written by Greg Michalowski at www.forexlive.com.
