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The Flood of U.S. Treasury Issuance and Duration Supply Continues
In its Q3 2020 refunding statement1 released on Aug. 5, 2020, the U.S. Treasury announced its plan to increase auction sizes across all nominal coupon tenors over the August-October quarter, with larger increases in longer tenors (7-year, 10-year, 20-year and 30-year). To gauge the demand appetite for U.S. Treasuries, let’s review the size and composition…
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Shorter Duration Munis Hold Up While Longer Duration Munis Tumble
Duration is everything in a rising interest rate market. Short term municipal bonds have fared better than their longer term counterparts as money moves out of bond funds. The S&P Short Term AMT-Free Municipal Bond Index has seen its weighted average yield remain fairly steady and has recorded a modestly down June so far of…
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