Posted on 08/09/2011 10:44:36 AM PDT by Free Vulcan
The Treasury Department sold $32 billion in 3-year notes Tuesday at a yield of 0.5%, the lowest yield ever for the maturity. Bidders offered to buy 3.29 times the amount of debt sold...
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I’d rather have stocks, getting 4.65%. There’s some risk, of course, but also potential upside.
I’d love to see a breakdown of WHO is buying them...if it’s the Fed, then they are just blowing up the bubble.
So far the downgrade isn’t effecting the treasury auctions...so far.
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Which raises two questions:
1. Why did the market crash on Monday?
2. What will Treasury yields be when the Italian Panic of 2011 is history.
The article give some general breakdown, no specific players though.
So I thought a downgrade raises yields? What gives?
So much for the downgrade causing us to pay higher rates to borrow.
Exactly. The 10 year closed LOWER yesterday than last Thursday. (Although lender rates went UP today!)
What's going on? I'd say the US government is urinating in it's own backyard.
The downgrade just said publicly what everyone already knew.
Monopoly money has become a world wide game. In order to keep interest rates close to zero, foreign central banks buy 50% of the bonds auctioned by the US Treasury.
Then I suspect the Federal Reserve does a quid pro quo and buys 50% of the bonds issued by foreign treasuries.
Also, the numbers do not add up. Kinda like Obama’s complaints about S&P. Indirect bidders bought 47.9% and direct bidders bought 11.1%, so who bought the other 41%???
And who would want to buy a 3 year treasury note that yields ½ percent? Why would anyone want to tie up $100,000 for 3 years and only get $500 interest? Could it be the only buyers of these government bonds are the central bankers who simply print some worthless dollars or euros or pounds?
I refuse to participate in this madness anymore and watch my savings disappear into a wisp of smoke.
Wall Street is Los Vegas and if anyone is putting their life savings into it ...oh well.
Intel offers a 4% dividend.
Saved before the deletion!
Evryone is so hot for the safety of Treasuries, I wonder is the FED selling some of it’s huge holdings.
Being older they have higher yields and could be sold at a profit I’d think. And the FED will probably need the cash to buy more Treasuries later when they’re not so wanted.
Disclaimer: I know nothing of this market!
It looks like foreign central bankers bought 47.9% and the other 41% is unaccounted for. Does the FED have a quid pro quo agreement with foreign central bankers to buy US bonds and the FED will buy foreign bonds?
Anything is possible when the fox is guarding the hen house.
NEW YORK (MarketWatch) — The Treasury Department sold $32 billion in 3-year notes Tuesday at a yield of 0.5%, the lowest yield ever for the maturity. Bidders offered to buy 3.29 times the amount of debt sold, close to the average of 3.25 times at the last four auctions of 3-year notes, all for the same amount. Indirect bidders, a group that includes foreign central banks, bought 47.9% of the auction, the highest proportion since May 2010 and compared to 34.1% on average. Direct bidders, a group that include domestic money managers, purchased another 11.1%, versus an average of 12.5%. After the auction, the broader bond market remained under pressure ahead of the Federal Reserve’s policy statement. Yields on 10-year notes , which move inversely to prices, rose 5 basis points to 2.37%.
Let’s see, a 4% dividend added to a 10% decline in price is equal to a (-6%) ROR ... there is one thing that is more important than return ON investments and that is return OF investments.
Three women have been supporting him his whole life.
His mother, Rosemary Forbes, was a member of the Forbes shipping family and a descendent of John Winthrop, who helped found Boston in 1630. She was one of 11 children, which thinned the family fortune somewhat. Her father was an international businessman, and she spent her early years in France at the family’s estate.
Before he married Teresa Heinz, the heir to the food empire, Kerry had little more than his annual Senate salary of $133,600 and a trust fund valued at $50,000 to $100,000. When his mother died in 2002, he inherited trusts with $300,000 to $1.5 million in assets — a pittance compared to his wife’s estimated $500 million.
The Democratic presidential candidate grew up in a world of elite private schools and vacations on a French estate, something most Americans could only dream about. His parents, a U.S. diplomat and a homemaker, turned to a wealthy, childless great-aunt, Clara Winthrop, to help pay the bills.
His first wife As Kerry struggled to launch his political career, Thorne used her wealth to help support the family. He was a private lawyer and prosecutor in Middlesex County, Mass., before running for lieutenant governor in 1982, the year he and Thorne split. The financial terms of their 1988 divorce were not made public.
Second marriage In 1995, Kerry’s fortunes changed dramatically when he married Teresa Heinz, the widow of Sen. H. John Heinz III of Pennsylvania. His next disclosure report to the Senate included dozens of pages detailing Heinz’s financial portfolio and some of the wedding presents they received, including a mirror with their wedding announcement framed on top from “Mr. and Mrs. Arnold Schwarzenegger” and a Baccarat flower vase from actor Clint Eastwood.
Gigolo is what he is called. Not an Economist
DITTO
You are better off buying corporate bonds that yield more than treasuries.
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