Placement Ratio

The Bond Buyer Placement Ratio, compiled on Fridays, represents the percentage of the dollar volume of that week's new competitive issues that was placed with permanent investors during the week. Only issues of $10 million or more are used.

1996

12/13 19 879,010 759,680 86.4

12/6 27 1,266,266 1,004,486 79.3

11/27 5 125,596 77,971 62.1

11/22 22 945,845 820,740 86.8

11/15 14 591,530 529,770 89.6

11/8 14 281,101 232,721 82.8

11/1 23 724,889 690,550 95.3

10/25 32 2,151,588 1,933,653 89.9

10/18 17 922,820 799,355 86.6

10/11 9 381,695 248,938 65.2

10/4 13 804,700 790,595 98.2

9/27 9 396,146 387,334 97.8

9/20 13 829,959 646,244 77.9

9/13 22 947,810 896,685 94.6

9/6 8 442,575 424,285 95.9

8/30 7 109,237 75,462 69.1

8/23 10 284,610 211,315 74.2

8/16 12 499,820 397,090 79.4

8/9 10 307,955 294,550 95.6

8/2 15 397,176 375,291 94.5

7/26 11 443,015 390,345 88.1

7/19 18 483,684 454,884 94.0

7/12 22 1,327,060 1,325,580 99.9

7/5 5 124,100 71,015 57.24

6/28 15 609,200 594,165 97.5

6/21 25 799,302 724,647 90.7

6/14 26 935,648 863,014 92.2

6/7 14 682,350 649,230 95.1

5/31 15 429,350 365,085 85.0

5/24 19 663,257 512,612 77.3

5/17 15 925,611 892,526 96.4