While I Was Away: Treasury Blinked

Reduced the size of the next 30-year bond auction to $11 billion from $14 billion previously.

Posted by jck on June 8th, 2009 at 1:23 pm    2 Comments

2 Responses to “ While I Was Away: Treasury Blinked ”

  • # 1 John Says:

    FYI, the 30-year auction is a reopening. The reopenings are always smaller than the original issue auctions. $11 bln is unchanged from the prior reopening, back in March. So, not blinking just yet. In fact, given that Treasury will now be reopening issues twice, they are still ratcheting up the overall auction size for each individual bond.

  • # 2 jck Says:

    You have a point, but to my knowledge, there is no law that says that reopenings have to be smaller than the original issue.The issuance cycle for the long bond is now monthly and to the question “can Treasury raise $11 to $14 billion monthly, via 30-year paper” , my guess answer is NOT for very long, especially with the collateral damage inflicted on long duration MBS and potential for a disastrous negative convexity hedging event. We shall see.

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