0利率的債券 - 理財

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作者: badfood (我怕蟑阿螂) 看板: Stock
標題: [新聞] 0利率的債券
時間: Wed Dec 10 21:57:57 2008

1.原文連結：
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601009&sid=adLrsq9KMJL8

2.內容：

The Treasury sold $30 billion of four-week bills at zero percent for the

first time since it began selling the securities in 2001 amid persistent

demand for the safety of U.S. debt during the worst financial crisis since

the Great Depression.

The bills were sold at a high discount rate of zero percent, the Treasury

Department said today in Washington. The government received bids for the

bills totaling more than four times the amount sold.

“It’s the year-end factor with those four-week bills,” said Chris Ahrens,

an interest-rate strategist in Greenwich, Connecticut, at UBS Securities LLC,

one of the 17 primary dealers that trade directly with the Federal Reserve.

“Everyone wants to be in bills going into year-end. Buy now while the

opportunity is still there.”

Indirect bidders, a group that includes foreign central banks, bought

47.2 percent of the amount sold, compared with 31.7 percent in the prior

auction. Primary dealers bought 52.1 percent, while direct bidders such as

individual investors purchased 0.7 percent.

Yields on government securities have plummeted this year to record lows as

investors have gravitated toward their safety as stocks and emerging-market

assets plunged. Rates on three-month bills, viewed as a haven in times of

turmoil, traded at a negative rate of 0.01 percent today.

The Treasury sold $27 billion in three-month bills yesterday at a rate of

0.005 percent, the lowest rate since it starting auctioning the securities

in 1929.

The rate on four-week bills peaked at 5.175 percent on Jan. 29, 2007. The

government began issuing the four-week bills in July 2001, according to

Stephen Meyerhardt, a spokesman for the Bureau of Public Debt in Washington.

The bills are intended to reduce the government’s reliance on irregularly

issued cash management bills.

To contact the reporter on this story: Cordell Eddings in New York at

[email protected]; Daniel Kruger in New York at [email protected]

Last Updated: December 9, 2008 14:03 EST


3.心得/評論：

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