Gary Siegel

NEW YORK - The Treasury Department today sold $25 billion 55-day cash management bills, dated November 12, due January 6, 2011, at a 0.145% high tender rate.

NEW YORK - The Treasury Department said it will auction $23 billion year bills on Tuesday, November 16.

NEW YORK - The Treasury Department said Wednesday it will auction $29 billion 91-day bills and $28 billion 182-day discount bills Monday.

NEW YORK - Mortgage loan application volume grew 5.8% on a seasonally adjusted basis in the week ended November 5, according to the Mortgage Bankers Association Weekly Mortgage Applications Survey, released Wednesday.

Retail sales at chain stores rose 1.3% in the week and 3.4% year-over-year, according to the ICSC-Goldman Sachs Weekly Chain Store Sales Snapshot released Tuesday.

The Treasury Department auctioned $24 billion of 10-year notes Tuesday with a 2 5/8% coupon at a 2.636% high yield, a price of 99.903856. The bid-to-cover ratio was 2.80.

NEW YORK - The Treasury Department auctioned $24 billion of 10-year notes with a 2 5/8% coupon at a 2.636% high yield, a price of 99.903856.

NEW YORK - The Treasury Department Tuesday auctioned $25 billion of four-week bills at a 0.105% high yield, a price of 99.992125.

NEW YORK – November sales were 2.6% better than last November, but short of the 2.9% increase expected, according to the weekly retail sales report for the week ended November 6, released by Johnson Redbook Tuesday.

NEW YORK – Retail sales at chain stores increased 1.3% in the week and 3.4% year-over-year, according to the ICSC-Goldman Sachs Weekly Chain Store Sales Snapshot released Tuesday.

The Conference Board’s employment trends index rose to 98.1 in October from a revised 97.3 in September, and is up 10.1% from a year ago, the group announced Monday.

The Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas’ Richard Fisher said Monday that the economy is progressing and “more things are moving in the right direction than in the wrong direction,” which is why he is against additional quantitative easing.

NEW YORK – The economy is progressing, and “more things are moving in the right direction than in the wrong direction,” according to Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas President and CEO Richard W. Fisher, which is why he is against additional quantitative easing.

NEW YORK - The Treasury Department today auctioned $32 billion of three-year notes with a 1/2% coupon at a 0.575% yield, a price of 99.777247.

NEW YORK - Tender rates for the Treasury Department’s latest 90-day and 181-day discount bills were mixed, as the three-months incurred a 0.125% high rate, unchanged from 0.125% the prior week, and the six-months incurred a 0.160% high rate, up from 0.155% the week before.

NEW YORK - The Treasury Department said it will auction $25 billion 556-day cash management bills on Wednesday, November 10.

NEW YORK - The Treasury Department said Tuesday it will sell $25 billion of four-week discount bills Tuesday.

NEW YORK – The Conference Board’s Employment Trends Index (ETI) rose to 98.1 in October from an upwardly revised 97.3 in September, originally reported as 97.0, and is up 10.1% from a year ago, the group announced Monday.

U.S. inflationary pressures were lower in October, as the U.S. future inflation gauge fell to 97.4 from a downwardly revised 97.5 in September, according to data released Friday by the Economic Cycle Research Institute.

Pending home sales slid 1.8% to a reading of 80.9 in October from a revised 4.4% rise to 82.4 in September, originally reported as a 4.3% gain to 82.3, according to an index released Friday by the National Association of Realtors.