Gary Siegel

NEW YORK - Tender rates for the Treasury Department’s latest 91-day and 182-day discount bills were higher, as the three-months incurred a 0.110% high rate, up from 0.095% the prior week, and the six-months incurred a 0.170% high rate, up from 0.165% the week before.

NEW YORK - The Treasury Department said it will sell $24 billion of four-week discount bills tomorrow.

NEW YORK – The Conference Board’s Employment Trends Index (ETI) rose 1.0% to 93.2 in January, from a revised 2.5% jump to 92.3 in December, originally reported as a 1.7% increase to 91.8, and is down 0.7% from a year ago, the group announced today.

NEW YORK – The Federal Reserve announced today it will set a 0.25% minimum bid on its $50 billion 28-day Term Auction Facility credit selling today.

U.S. inflationary pressures were higher in January as the U.S. future inflation gauge rose to 100.2 from an upwardly revised 99.0 in December, according to data released Friday by the Economic Cycle Research Institute.

Consumer borrowing decreased by $1.8 billion in December to a seasonally adjusted $2.457 trillion from $2.459 trillion in November, a 0.8% decrease, the Federal Reserve reported Friday.

NEW YORK - Consumer borrowing decreased by $1.8 billion in December to a seasonally adjusted $2.457 trillion from $2.459 trillion in November, a 0.8% decrease, the Federal Reserve reported today.

NEW YORK - U.S. inflationary pressures were higher in January as the U.S. future inflation gauge rose to 100.2 from an upwardly revised 99.0 in December, according to data released this morning by the Economic Cycle Research Institute.

The European Central Bank announced its Governing Council held interest rates at current levels at its latest monetary policy meeting yesterday.

NEW YORK – Newly issued Treasury securities held in stripped form increased about $1.963 billion in January to a total of $175.380 billion, the Bureau of the Public Debt reported this afternoon.

NEW YORK - The Treasury Department said today it will auction $24 billion 91-day bills and $27 billion 182-day discount bills Monday.

NEW YORK - The Treasury Department said it will auction $26 billion year bills on Feb. 9.

NEW YORK - The European Central Bank announced its Governing Council held interest rates at current levels at its latest monetary policy meeting this morning.

The Treasury Department yesterday sold $5 billion of 21-day cash management bills, dated Feb. 4 and due Feb. 25, at a 0.020% high tender rate.

ADP estimates that non-farm payrolls for January fell 22,000, the smallest decline in two years.

The Institute for Supply Management’s non-manufacturing business activity composite index increased to 50.5 in January, up from 49.8 in December, on a seasonally adjusted basis, the group said yesterday.

The Treasury Department announced yesterday it will sell $40 billion of three-year notes on Feb. 9, $25 billion of 10-year notes on Feb. 10, and $16 billion of 30-year bonds on Feb. 11. All of the sales will take place at 1 p.m. Eastern Standard Time.

NEW YORK – Calling growth in the economy “encouraging,” but employment is troubling, Federal Reserve Board Chairman Ben S. Bernanke was sworn in for a second term as chairman today.

NEW YORK - The Treasury Department today sold $5 billion 21-day cash management bills, dated Feb. 4, due Feb. 25, at a 0.020% high tender rate.

NEW YORK – The Treasury department announced today it will sell $40 billion three-year notes at 1 p.m., EST, on Tuesday, February 9, $25 billion 10-year notes at 1 p.m., EST, on Wednesday, February 10, and $16 billion 30-year bonds at 1 p.m., EST, on Thursday, February 11.