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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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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