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Treasuries Gain as Stocks Fluctuate, 30-Year Auction Looms
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20602007&sid=a1Gsjc9w35Z8#
By Cordell Eddings and Susanne Walker
Nov. 12 (Bloomberg) -- Treasuries rose as U.S. stocks fluctuated and as the U.S. prepared to sell a
record $16 billion of 30-year bonds, the final of this week’s three auctions totaling $81 billion.
The
difference between two- and 30-year yields was at 3.56 percentage points, the most since July, and up from 1.91 percentage points on Dec. 31.
Yields on long-term bonds rose this year as the U.S. increased debt sales, while shorter-term notes are anchored by the Federal Reserve’s record-low rate.
“The auction will be the focus,” said
Paul Horrmann, a broker in Jersey City, New Jersey, at ICAP Plc, the world’s largest inter-dealer broker. “Until then the market will be a grind. The steepness of the curve may draw some sponsorship to the 30-year auction.”
The 10-year
note yield fell three basis points, or 0.03 percentage point, to 3.47 percent at 10:17 a.m. in New York, according to BGCantor Market Data. The 3.375 percent security maturing in November 2019 rose 7/32, or $2.19 per $1,000 face amount, to 99 1/4.
Yields on debt maturing in 30 years fell one basis point to 4.40 percent. The bonds scheduled for sale today yielded 4.39 percent in pre-auction trading.
‘Buyers Back’
“Higher rates and a steeper curve will bring the buyers back in today,”
William O’Donnell, U.S. government bond strategist at RBS Securities Inc. in Stamford, Connecticut, wrote in a note to clients. The firm is one of 18 primary dealers required to bid at Treasury auctions. “The steepening in 2-30s and 5’s-30s curves is overdone and ripe for a correction flattening.”
The
Standard & Poor’s 500 Index rose as much as 0.3 percent and declined as much as 0.4 percent. The gauge of U.S. stocks has rebounded 62 percent from a 12-year low in March.
Fed Bank of Dallas President Richard
Fisher said Nov. 10 that U.S. interest rates remain “appropriate” as economic growth and inflation may persist below ideal levels into 2011.
The Fed cut its
target for overnight loans to a range of zero to 0.25 percent in December. It reiterated its pledge to keep borrowing costs at a record low for an “extended period” in a statement last week.
“We are trading at higher yields, which could stimulate some interest in the auction, especially from absolute return investors,” said
Guy Lebas, chief fixed-income strategist and economist at Janney Montgomery Scott LLC in Philadelphia. “The markets believe the Fed when they say ‘extended period,’ so the curve may offer some value further out.”
Financial Crisis
The financial crisis, which started with the collapse of the U.S. property market in 2007, has triggered $1.67 trillion of writedowns and credit losses at banks and other financial institutions and sent the global economy into its first recession since World War II, according to data compiled by Bloomberg.
While trading of Treasuries was closed yesterday for Veterans Day in the U.S., government bonds rallied in the U.K. after Bank of England Governor
Mervyn King said inflation will probably stay below the central bank’s 2 percent target.
Investors bid for 2.37 times the amount of 30-year bonds on offer at last month’s auction, versus an average of 2.39 times for the past 10 sales. Indirect bidders, which include foreign central banks, purchased 34.5 percent of the debt last month, versus the 10-sale average of 40.3 percent.
The government sold $40 billion of three-year notes and $25 billion of 10-year debt earlier this week, both records, as President
Barack Obama borrows unprecedented amounts to fund stimulus programs. U.S.
marketable debt totals $6.95 trillion and reached $7.01 trillion in September, the most ever.
‘No End in Sight’
Treasury officials on Nov. 4 announced a long-term target of six to seven years for the average maturity of government debt. The average maturity is currently about 53 months, according to Treasury data, below the historical average of about five years.
Sales of coupon-bearing Treasuries will increase to $2.38 trillion in the fiscal year that began Oct. 1, from $1.81 trillion in the prior 12 months, primary dealer Goldman Sachs Group Inc. said in a report on Oct. 20.
The amounts are making some investors say today’s gains won’t last.
“There’s no end to the Treasury sales in sight,” said
Tsutomu Komiya, an investor in Tokyo at Daiwa Asset Management Co., which oversees $77 billion as part of Japan’s second- largest brokerage. “Supply will send bond yields higher.”
Ten-year yields will rise to 4 percent by the end of 2010, he said. A Bloomberg survey of banks and securities companies projects the figure will be 4.22 percent, with the most recent forecasts given the heaviest weightings.
The increase in long-term yields means bonds are lagging behind shorter securities.
Two-year notes returned 1.4 percent in 2009, while 10-year securities handed investors a 7.4 percent loss and 30-year bonds tumbled almost 24 percent, based on indexes compiled by Merrill Lynch.