Treasury 4-weeks auctioned at 0.850% high yield on June 20

The Treasury Department Tuesday auctioned $35 billion of four-week bills at a 0.850% high yield, a price of 99.933889.

The coupon equivalent was 0.862%. The bid-to-cover ratio was 3.42.

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The US Treasury Department has appealed to the Sixth Circuit Court a pair of lawsuits with Ohio and Kentucky that have blocked the department from enforcing an ARPA provision that restricts the states from using the funds to offset tax cuts.

Tenders at the high rate were allotted 25.38%. The median rate was 0.840%. The low rate was 0.750%.

The bills have an issue date of June 22 and are due July 20.

Tenders totaled $119,574,855,400 and the Treasury accepted $35,000,269,400, including $441,676,400 non-competitive.

The Fed banks bought nothing for their own account.

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