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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NEW YORK - Tender rates for the Treasury Department’s latest 91-day and 182-day discount bills were flat, as the three-months incurred a 0.155% high rate, unchanged from 0.155% the prior week, and the six-months incurred a 0.185% high rate, unchanged from 0.185% the week before.
By Gary SiegelAugust 23 -
NEW YORK - The Treasury Department said it will auction $35 billion 21-day cash management bills on Wednesday, August 25.
By Gary SiegelAugust 23 -
NEW YORK - The Treasury Department said it will auction $25 billion 56-day cash management bills on Wednesday, August 25.
By Gary SiegelAugust 23 -
NEW YORK - The Treasury Department said Monday it will sell $34 billion of four-week discount bills Tuesday.
By Gary SiegelAugust 23 -
NEW YORK - The Chicago Fed National Activity Index for July improved to zero, its historical average, from a revised negative 0.70 reading in June, originally reported as negative 0.63.
By Gary SiegelAugust 23 -
The U.S. labor market recorded 2.3% fewer mass layoff actions in July, with the number of mass terminations falling to 1,609 events on a seasonally adjusted basis, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported Friday.
By Gary SiegelAugust 20 -
NEW YORK - Employers took 1,609 mass layoff actions in July that resulted in 143,703 lost jobs, seasonally adjusted, as measured by new filings for unemployment insurance benefits during the month, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported Friday.
By Gary SiegelAugust 20 -
NEW YORK – Demand for petroleum increased 3.8% in July, compared to a year ago, even as demand for gasoline slowed, according to the American Petroleum Institute.
By Gary SiegelAugust 20 -
The Philadelphia region's manufacturing sector weakened in August as the general business conditions index tumbled to negative 7.7 from positive 5.1 in July, the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia Report on Business indicates.
By Gary SiegelAugust 19 -
The composite index of leading economic indicators grew 0.1% in July, the Conference Board reported Thursday.
By Gary SiegelAugust 19 -
Expansion is the most likely possibility going forward, despite the softening economy, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis president James Bullard said Thursday.
By Gary SiegelAugust 19 -
NEW YORK – Although the macroeconomic outlook is softer, expansion is the most likely possibility going forward, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis President James Bullard said Thursday.
By Gary SiegelAugust 19 -
NEW YORK - The Treasury Department said it will auction $25 billion year bills on Tuesday, August 24.
By Gary SiegelAugust 19 -
NEW YORK - The Treasury Department said it will auction $7 billion 29-year six-month inflation-indexed notes on Monday, Aug. 23.
By Gary SiegelAugust 19 -
NEW YORK - The Treasury Department said it will auction $37 billion two-year notes on Tuesday, August 24 and $36 billion five-year notes on Wednesday, August 25.
By Gary SiegelAugust 19 -
NEW YORK - The Treasury Department said it will auction $29 billion seven-year notes on Thursday, August 26.
By Gary SiegelAugust 19 -
NEW YORK - The Treasury Department said Thursday it will auction $30 billion 91-day bills and $30 billion 182-day discount bills Monday.
By Gary SiegelAugust 19 -
NEW YORK – The region's manufacturing sector weakened in August, as the general business conditions index slipped to negative 7.7 from positive 5.1 in July, this month’s Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia Report on Business indicates.
By Gary SiegelAugust 19 -
NEW YORK - The composite index of Leading Economic Indicators grew 0.1% in July, the Conference Board reported today.
By Gary SiegelAugust 19 -
The Treasury Department Wednesday sold $25 billion of 56-day cash management bills, dated Aug. 19, due Oct. 14, at a 0.145% high tender rate.
By Gary SiegelAugust 18