Gary Siegel is a journalist with more than 35 years of experience. He started his professional career at the Long Island Journal newspapers based in Long Beach, N.Y., working his way up from reporter to Assistant Managing Editor. Siegel also worked for Prentice-Hall in Paramus, N.J., covering human resources issues. Siegel has been at The Bond Buyer since 1989, currently covering economic indicators and the Federal Reserve system.
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The Treasury Department auctioned $34 billion of five-year notes, with a 2% coupon, a 2.066% high yield, a price of 99.688000.
November 27 -
Modest gains in health-care prices have kept inflation levels low, according to a Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco Economic Letter, released Monday.
November 27 -
A rate hike should be appropriate “in the near future,” said Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas President Rob Kaplan.
November 27 -
The Treasury Department Monday auctioned $26 billion of two-year notes with a 1 3/4% coupon at a 1.765% yield, a price of 99.970650.
November 27 -
The Treasury Department said Monday it will sell $45 billion of four-week discount bills Tuesday.
November 27 -
Texas factory activity, as measured by the production index, “continued to expand in November.”
November 27 -
The Treasury Department said Wednesday it will auction $42 billion 91-day bills and $36 billion 182-day discount bills Monday.
November 22 -
The University of Michigan's final November consumer sentiment index reading was 98.5, compared to the preliminary November 97.8 and the final October 100.7, according to market sources.
November 22 -
The Treasury Department Tuesday auctioned $45 billion of four-week bills at a 1.130% high yield, a price of 99.915250.
November 21 -
Existing home sales grew 2.0% to a seasonally adjusted 5.48 million-unit rate in October from a revised 5.37 million sales pace the previous month.
November 21 -
The region's non-manufacturing sector “continued to expand, but with a slowing in the pace of growth.”
November 21 -
The Chicago Fed National Activity Index for October increased to 0.65 from 0.36 in September, while the three-month moving average (CFNAI-MA3) rose to 0.28 from 0.01, the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago reported Tuesday.
November 21 -
Federal Reserve Board Chair Janet Yellen will resign as a member of the Fed’s Board of Governors when Jerome Powell is sworn in as chair, the Fed announced Monday.
November 20 -
Falling Treasury yields despite Federal Reserve short-term rate hikes have caused "conundrum" like that seen in 2004-2005, according to a Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, but unlike the earlier occasion, economists may understand it better this time.
November 20 -
Tender rates for the Treasury Department's latest 90-day and 181-day discount bills were higher on Monday, as the three-months incurred a 1.285% high rate, up from 1.240% the prior week, and the six-months incurred a 1.415% high rate, up from 1.360% the week before.
November 20 -
The Treasury Department said Monday it will sell $45 billion of four-week discount bills Tuesday.
November 20 -
The composite of the Leading Economic Index was up 1.2% in October.
November 20 -
Manufacturing activity in the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City's region "slowed slightly but remained solid, and optimism for future activity remained high."
November 17 -
A global perspective must be used to prepare for the next recession, even though it’s not on the near horizon, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco President John Williams said Thursday.
November 16 -
The Treasury Department sold $11 billion of inflation-indexed 9-year 8-month TIPs at a 0.512% high yield, an adjusted price of 99.585502, with a 3/8% coupon.
November 16
