Gary Siegel

NEW YORK - The Treasury Department said it will auction $25 billion 56-day cash management bills on Wednesday, August 18.

NEW YORK - The Treasury Department said Monday it will sell $34 billion of four-week discount bills Tuesday.

NEW YORK - Builders’ confidence in the market for new single-family homes continued its slide, falling to its lowest level since March 2009, as the National Association of Home Builders' housing market index - a monthly gauge of builder sentiment – dropped to 13 in August from an unrevised 14 in July.

NEW YORK - The Empire State Manufacturing Survey showed “conditions improved modestly in August for New York manufacturers,” the Federal Reserve Bank of New York today reported, as the general business conditions index climbed to 7.10 in the month from 5.08 in July, the Fed reported.

The federal funds rate must stay accommodative, but also must begin to rise, Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City president Thomas Hoenig said Friday.

Economic growth appears to be weakening compared to estimates from three months ago, as those surveyed for the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia’s third-quarter survey of professional forecasters cut estimates of gross domestic product growth to 2.3% from 3.3%.

The University of Michigan’s preliminary August consumer sentiment index reading was 69.6 compared to the final July 67.8, according to market sources.

NEW YORK – The fed funds rate must stay accommodative, but also must begin to rise now so increases can be slow and deliberate, Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City President Thomas Hoenig said Friday.

NEW YORK – Economic growth appears to be weakening compared to estimates from three months ago, as those surveyed for the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia’s third quarter survey of Professional Forecasters cut estimates of GDP growth this quarter to 2.3% from 3.3%.

NEW YORK - The University of Michigan's preliminary August consumer sentiment index reading was 69.6, compared to the final July 67.8, the preliminary July 66.5, and the final June 76.0, according to market sources.

The Treasury Department Thursday announced it will auction $30 billion of 91-day bills and $30 billion of 182-day discount bills on Monday.

The Treasury Department Thursday auctioned $16 billion of 30-year bonds with a 3 7/8% coupon at a 3.954% high yield and a price of 98.619129.

NEW YORK - The Treasury Department today auctioned $16 billion of 30-year bonds with a 3 7/8% coupon at a 3.954% high yield, a price of 98.619129.

NEW YORK - The Treasury Department said Thursday it will auction $30 billion 91-day bills and $30 billion 182-day discount bills Monday.

Mortgage loan application volume rose 0.6% in the week ending Aug. 6 on a seasonally adjusted basis from a week earlier, the Mortgage Bankers Association said.

NEW YORK - The Treasury Department auctioned $24 billion of 10-year notes with a 2 5/8% coupon at a 2.730% high yield, a price of 99.086655.

NEW YORK - The Treasury Department today sold $25 billion 56-day cash management bills, dated Aug. 12, due Oct. 7, at a 0.135% high tender rate.

NEW YORK – Mortgage loan application volume increased 0.6% in the week ending August 6 on a seasonally adjusted basis from a week earlier, the Mortgage Bankers Association said Wednesday. On an unadjusted basis, the index increased 0.4% in the week.

NEW YORK - The Treasury Department today auctioned $34 billion of three-year notes with a 3/4% coupon at a 0.844% yield, a price of 99.722358.

NEW YORK - The Treasury Department Tuesday auctioned $31 billion of four-week bills at a 0.145% high yield, a price of 99.988722.