Gary Siegel

NEW YORK - The Treasury Department today sold $25 billion 56-day cash management bills, dated October 7, due December 2, at a 0.145% high tender rate.

NEW YORK - Private-sector employment decreased 39,000 on a seasonally adjusted basis in September, compared to August, according to the latest ADP National Employment Report released Wednesday.

NEW YORK – Mortgage loan application volume slipped 0.2% on a seasonally adjusted basis in the week ending October 1, according to the Mortgage Bankers Association Weekly Mortgage Applications Survey.

Retail sales slipped 0.8% in the week ending Oct. 2, according to the ICSC-Goldman Sachs Weekly Chain Store Sales Snapshot released Tuesday.

The Institute for Supply Management’s non-manufacturing business activity composite index climbed to a seasonally adjusted 53.2 in September from 51.5 in August, the group said Tuesday.

NEW YORK - The Treasury Department Tuesday auctioned $25 billion of four-week bills at a 0.135% high yield, a price of 99.989500.

NEW YORK - The Institute for Supply Management's non-manufacturing business activity composite index was 53.2 in September, up from 51.5 in August, on a seasonally adjusted basis, the group said today.

NEW YORK – Retail sales slipped 0.8% in the week ending October 2, according to the ICSC-Goldman Sachs Weekly Chain Store Sales Snapshot released Tuesday.

Tender rates for the Treasury Department’s latest 91-day and 182-day discount bills were lower, as the three-months incurred a 0.130% high rate, off from 0.155% the previous week, and the six-months incurred a 0.185% high, down from 0.190%.

Pending home sales grew less then economists expected in August, rising 4.3% to a level of 82.3, according to an index released Monday by the National Association of Realtors.

NEW YORK - Tender rates for the Treasury Department’s latest 91-day and 182-day discount bills were lower, as the three-months incurred a 0.130% high rate, off from 0.155% the prior week, and the six-months incurred a 0.185% high rate, down from 0.190% the week before.

NEW YORK - The Treasury Department said it will auction $25 billion 56-day cash management bills on Wednesday, October 6.

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

NEW YORK - Pending home sales grew 4.3% to a reading of 82.3 in August from a revised 4.5% increase to 78.9 in July, originally reported as a 5.2% gain 79.4, according to an index released Monday by the National Association of Realtors.

NEW YORK - Janet Yellen, former president of the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco was sworn in as vice chair of the Federal Reserve Board Monday, and Sarah Bloom Raskin was sworn in as a fed governor, the Fed announced.

NEW YORK – The seasonally adjusted Milwaukee Index dropped to 50 in September from 59 in August, according to the Institute for Supply Management-Milwaukee.

NEW YORK – New York City business activity improved for the first time in four month, the Institute for Supply Management-New York’s Report on Business current business conditions index indicated.

Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia president Charles Plosser said Wednesday that the U.S. economy is recovering modestly and that improvement should continue, despite the “summer doldrums” of the past few months.

Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis president Narayana Kocherlakota lowered his expectations for economic growth Wednesday to near 2.4% in the second half of this year and about 2.5% in 2011.

NEW YORK - The Treasury Department auctioned $29 billion of seven-year notes, with a 1 7/8% coupon, a 1.890% high yield, a price of 99.902081.