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- In Today's Calmer Markets, Interest Rates Both Rise and Fall
- Interest rates on U.S. Treasury bonds are rising this week, as the government conducts king-sized auctions across a range of maturities, totaling a record $115 billion. Investors are still eager to buy Treasuries, but with a recovery and inflation in the works T-bonds are no longer the only game...
- Blog posts 2009-07-27
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- Pension community pushes 30-year Treasury rate replacement
- When the federal government decided one year ago that it no longer needed to sell 30-year Treasury bonds, it pulled the rug out from under pension plan sponsors that are required to use this long-term benchmark interest rate to calculate current plan liabilities. Now sponsor representatives are calling lawmakers on...
- Research articles 2002-11-01
- Interest rate relief for pension plans.(Brief Article)
- Congress will retain interest rate relief for pension plans. Last year, lawmakers let plans use up to 120% of the 30-year Treasury rate through 2003 to figure funding levels and the size of lump-sum payouts. Plan sponsors complained that the old rate of 105% of the 30-year...
- Research articles 2003-03-14
- TVA Again Beats U.S. Treasury Rates With $400 Million Bond Issue
- KNOXVILLE, Tenn.--BUSINESS WIRE--July 26, 1996--TVA has reopened a unique bond issue and likely achieved the lowest-cost financing ever obtained by a U.S. corporation compared with U.S. Treasury rate.
- Research articles 1996-07-26
- Fed's Rate Quandary: Buy In More Bonds, or Let The Market Have Its Way?
- One of the Federal Reserve's measures toward recovery is the purchase of long Treasury bonds, as well as mortgage-related securities, to keep a lid on long-term interest rates, to give a housing recovery time to take root. But despite of the Fed's efforts interest rates are rising, and the...
- Blog posts 2009-06-15
- Rate Views Rattle Markets Before Fed
- By Kevin PlumbergHONG KONG (Reuters) - Shifting views on interest rates in 2010 whipsawed markets on Wednesday, with the Australian dollar tumbling as investors scaled back their bets on aggressive rate hikes, while U.S. Treasuries rose before the last Federal Reserve meeting this year.Asian stocks mainly slid on profit taking,...
- News items 2009-12-16
- Treasury rates rise
- WASHINGTON AP -- Interest rates on short-term Treasury securities rose in Monday's auction. The Treasury Department sold $16 billion in three-month bills at a discount rate of 1.900 percent, up from 1.815 percent last week. An additional $16 billion was sold in six-month bills at a rate...
- Research articles 2001-11-20
- Treasury proposes pension liability fix. (Pensions).
- The Treasury Department says employers ought to use a yield-curve approach when calculating pension liabilities. Today, plan sponsors use one simple rate that is 20% higher than the four-year average of yields on 30-year Treasury bonds. Under a new Treasury Department proposal,...
- Research articles 2003-07-14
- Good News: Treasury Bond Yields Are Rising
- Calafia Beach Pundit submits: Treasury bond yields are up since their all-time lows of late last year. Rising bond yields in the current environment is unequivocally a positive sign. Nominal yields have risen much more than real yields on TIPS, which means that investors have lost a good...
- External links 2009-02-26
- A Sit-Down with Treasury Officials (Part II)
- Kid Dynamite submits: In Part One of the recap of my trip to the Treasury, I outlined the questions and answers related to variations on the concept of "extend and pretend" - the refusal to acknowledge bad debts and instead attempt to stick our proverbial policy finger in the...
- External links 2009-11-05
- Pricing Treasury Inflation Protected Securities And Related Derivatives Using An HJM Model
- Inflation indexed bonds called TIPS – Treasury Inflation Protected Securities, differ from conventional bonds in that the principal is constantly adjusted for inflation, modifying the semi-annual interest payments accordingly. The index for measuring the inflation rate is the Consumer Price Index for all urban consumers, and lagged by two months....
- White papers 2002-02-19
- ANALYZING VARIABLES: Opportunistic real estate investors need global perspective; Quantifying office cap-rate risk factors can determine the hurdle rates across countries.(Statistical Data Included)
- To determine the appropriate hurdle rate of return for an international opportunistic real estate investor, it is necessary to think in terms of a global asset allocation model. In the purely U.S. context, investors all look at the appropriate hurdle rate in terms of...
- Research articles 2001-10-29
- Treasury Earns 12% Return on First Few TARP Banks: Is That Enough?
- Banks that took Treasury TARP funding are eager to cut their ties to the program, in order to demonstrate their self-sufficiency, and regain full control of their institutions including how much they can pay the top brass. Eleven smallish banks have completely wound up their TARP participation, and the Congressional...
- Blog posts 2009-07-12
- 3-month T-bill rate at 9-year high
- WASHINGTON AP -- Interest rates on short-term Treasury bills rose in Monday's auction with three-month bills hitting their highest level in more than nine years. The Treasury Department auctioned $9.5 billion in three-month bills at an average discount rate of 6.090 percent. Another $8.5 billion in six-month...
- Research articles 2000-08-01
- US Treasury stops short of accusing China of currency manipulation
- WASHINGTON AFP — The US Treasury Department said that China should move to a flexible exchange rate as soon as possible, but stopped short of issuing a formal finding that Beijing is manipulating the exchange value of the yuan. In its semi-annual currency report, Treasury said that China uses...
- Research articles 2004-12-03
- Interest rates on short-term Treasury bills rose in November to their highest levels since spring 2001.(THE NUMBERS)
- INTEREST RATES ON SHORT-term Treasury bills rose in November to their highest levels since spring 2001. The Treasury Department auctioned $18 billion in three-month bills at a discount rate of 3.910%, up from 3.870% the week prior. Separately, the Fed noted that the average yield for...
- Research articles 2005-12-01
- AN EXAMINATION OF TREASURY TERM INVESTMENT INTEREST RATES
- * The U.S. Treasury, through its Term Investment Option TIO program, lends excess cash balances to banks at interest rates determined by single-rate auctions. * An important issue in TIO auctions is whether the Treasury receives a market rate of return on TIO funds. * An analysis of the spread...
- Research articles 2007-03-01
- RZB goes live with integrated, front-to-back global treasury system from Wall Street Systems; RZB goes live with Interest Rate Derivatives (IRD) module; Best Market Practice (BMP) ensures implementation is rapid and smooth.
- M2 PRESSWIRE-7 October 2003-Wall Street Systems: RZB goes live with integrated, front-to-back global treasury system from Wall Street Systems; RZB goes live with Interest Rate Derivatives IRD module; Best Market Practice BMP ensures implementation is rapid and smoothC1994-2003 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:10072003 ...
- Research articles 2003-10-07
- Treasury Strategies Addresses the Auction-Rate Securities Debacle
- CHICAGO -- Treasury Strategies outlined how they help clients manage and value auction-rate securities ARS during a webinar hosted by the Financial Leadership Exchange last week. Valuation, liquidity and FAS 157 issues were the main topics of the session in which over 120 CFOs participated. "There are actually four...
- Research articles 2008-04-03
- Moody's Public Finance Department Rating News Moody's confirms ratings on Texas Public Finance Authority Commercial Paper Programs, University of Texas Permanent University Fund Variable Rate Notes, and State of Texas Veterans' Housing Assistance Program
- NEW YORK--BUSINESS WIRE--Dec. 20, 1994--Effective today, Moody's has reviewed and confirms the ratings assigned to two commercial paper programs of the Texas Public Finance Authority, a variable rate notes issue of the University of Texas System-Permanent University Fund, and a variable rate bonds issue for the Texas Veterans'...
- Research articles 1994-12-20
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