2010 YTD Treasury Investor Class Purchasing Update

The Treasury has released the most recent UST Auction Allotment by Investment Class data for recent Treasury auctions. In January and February of a total $207 billion in Coupons auctioned, foreign and international investors acquired $58 billion (28% of total), dealers and brokers took down $104 billion (51%), depository institutions purchased just $3.2 billion, investment funds acquired $35 billion (16.8%) and individuals took down a mere $1 billion. In Bills, there was a total of $286 billion in Bills issued in January, of which foreigners purchased $47 billion (16.4%), dealers and brokers bought $145 billion (50.7%), investment funds bought another $43 billion (15.2%), and individuals were responsible for just $10 billion in Bills. Notable is the nearly double relative interest that foreigners have for Coupons than to Bills, as a result of persistently low interest rates.

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Comments

[bugs_]

KING DOLLAR.

[mtguy]

It would be interesting to see the order of purchases. Did the "dealers and brokers" buy to save the auctions from failing?

Stupid question, but where does the FED's purchases fall in the scheme of things?

[Anonymous]

TD has illustrated the frequency and severity by which the "dealers and brokers" purchases ARE the Fed's purchases in the form of "repurchases" which are easily tracked via cusip number. Watch for the cusip numbers to "disappear" in the coming financial regulatory reforms to eliminate this.

[drwells]

Remember when the bull line was that J6P, flush with cash, was doing all the buying as central banks retreated?

[Joe Sixpack]

I can testify that I was not buying treasuries.

[Zombie Investor]

I haven't been buying treasuries, but I have been buying a lot of six packs.

[Anonymous]

UR ALL PIGS FROM HELL (marketoracle)

Ukraine, Romanie, Portugal,(Italy), Ireland, Greece, Spain FROM Hungaria, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania

Il Folletto

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