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FED ER AL RESERVE BANK
O F NEW YORK
Fiscal Agent of the United States

f Circular No. 6 2 1 9 *1
L September 25, 1968 J

Results of Treasury’s 9-Month and 12-Month Bill Offerings
To All Incorporated Banks and Trust Companies, and Others Concerned,
in the Second Federal Reserve District:

The following statement was issued by the Treasury Department and released at 6:30 p.m.,
yesterday:
The Treasury Department announced that the tenders for two series of Treasury bills, one series to be
an additional issue of the bills dated June 30, 1968, and the other series to be dated September 30, 1968,
which were offered on September 18, 1968, were opened at the Federal Reserve Banks today. Tenders were
invited for $500,000,000, or thereabouts, of 273-day bills and for $1,000,000,000, or thereabouts, of 365-day
bills. The details of the two series are as follows:
Range of Accepted Competitive Bids
273-Day Treasury Bills
Maturing June 3 0 ,1 96 9

High .................
Low ..................
Average ...............

365-Day Treasury Bills
Maturing September 3 0 ,1 96 9

Price

Approx. equiv.
annual rate

96.083a
96.046
96.055

5.165%
5.214%
5.202%*

Approx. equiv.
annual rate

Price

94.844
94.809
94.821

5.085%
5.120%
5.108%!

a Excepting one tender of $20,000.
i These rates are on a bank discount basis. The equivalent coupon issue yields are 5.44 percent for the 273-day bills, and
5.39 percent for the 365-day bills.

(76 percent of the amount of 273-day bills
bid for at the low price was accepted.)

(50 percent of the amount of 365-day bills
bid for at the low price was accepted.)

Total Tenders Applied for and Accepted (By Federal Reserve Districts)
273-Day Treasury Bills
Maturing June 3 0 ,1 9 6 9
District

Applied for

Boston.............. $ 11,301,000
New Y o r k ...........
963,427,000
Philadelphia..........
5,578,000
Cleveland ...........
9,544,000
Richmond ...........
4,919,000
Atlanta .............
8,433,000
Chicago .............
166,814,000
St. Louis............
20,511,000
Minneapolis .........
16,145,000
Kansas City .........
5,270,000
Dallas ..............
11,095,000
San Francisco ........
119,793,000
T o ta l

............

$1,342,830,000

Accepted

$ 6,801,000$
337,427,000
478,000
1,544,000
2,369,000
2,993,000
88,814,000
10,071,000
8,845,000
3,600,000
1,095,000
36,293,000
$500,330,000b

365-Day Treasury Bills
Maturing September 3 0 ,1 96 9
Applied for

Accepted

21,941,000
$
1,606,488,000
12,760,000
17,859,000
4,019,000
26,172,000
142,056,000
26,915,000
14,281,000
13,223,000
12,728,000
141,664,000

441000
872,253 000
2,560 000
17,759’000
1 469 000
6 672000
25401 000
11 415 000
2281 000
5 223 000

2728000
51 804 000

$2,040,106,000

$1,000,006,000=

b Includes $25,343,000 noncompetitive tenders accepted at the average price of 96.055.
c Includes $44,441,000 noncompetitive tenders accepted at the average price of 94.821.




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lfred

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President.