Poor Three-Month T-Bill Auction Confounding, Jefferies Says
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(Bloomberg) -- Monday’s poor 3-month Treasury bill auction was baffling as the tenor bridges year-end, yet the stats were “almost as bad,” as last week’s sale, which was hurt because of its maturity before year-end, Jefferies strategist Thomas Simons says in note.
- Treasury sold $42b 3-mo. bills at 1.05% vs 1.04% 11:30am ET WI; 2.89 bid-to-cover matches last week as lowest since July 24; primary dealers took 70%, largest takedown since May 1
- It’s understandable that last week’s Treasury bill with a Dec. 28 maturity was received poorly because the maturity “was awkward and would’ve forced investors to redeploy proceeds right ahead of year-end.” For this week’s sale, “something else must be at work, but it doesn’t stick out as something obvious”
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