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FED ER AL RESERVE BANK O F N EW YORK
Fiscal Agent of the United States
f Circular No. 6 8 4 4 1
L November 24, 1971

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RESULTS OF TREASURY’S 9-MONTH AND 12-MONTH BILL OFFERINGS
To A ll 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 :3 0 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 August 31, 1971, and the other series to be dated November 30, 1971, which
were offered on November 17, 1971, were opened at the Federal Reserve Banks today. Tenders were invited
for $500,000,000, or thereabouts, of 275-day bills and for $1,200,000,000, or thereabouts, of 366-day bills. The
details of the two series are as follow s:
Range of Accepted Competitive Bids
275 -Day Treasury Bills
Maturing August 3 1 , 1972
Price

High .................. .................
L o w .................... ................
Average ............ .................

96.528a
96.488
96.501

366 -Day Treasury Bills
Maturing November 30, 1972

Approx. equiv.
annual rate

Price

Approx. equiv.
annual rate

4.540%
4.619%
4.563%!

95.384b
95.304
95.361

4.545%
4.598%
4.581%!

b Excepting one tender of $56C
a Excepting one tender of $60,000.
1 These rates are on a bank discount basis. The equivalent coupon issue yields are 4.79 percent for the 275-day bills,
4.81 percent for the 366-day bills.

(18 percent of the amount of 366-day bills
bid for at the low price was accepted.)

(77 percent of the amount of 275-day bills
bid for at the low price was accepted.)

Total Tenders Applied for and Accepted (By Federal Reserve Districts)
366 -Day Treasury Bills
Maturing November 30, 1972

275 -Day Treasury Bills
Maturing August 3 1 , 1972
District

Applied for

Boston .............. ............
New York ........ ............
Philadelphia...... ............
Cleveland .......... ............
Richmond ........ .............
Atlanta .............. ............
Chicago ............ .............
St. Louis .......... .............
Minneapolis ...................
Kansas C ity ...................
Dallas ............... ..............
San Francisco
T

otal

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

Accepted

Applied for

Accepted

10,150,000
1,293,490,000
8,790,000
310,000
375,000
10,675,000
79,095,000
17,165,000
7,110,000
15,515,000
23,300,000
62,320,000

$
150,000
453,890,000
790,000
310,000
375,000
1,175,000
28,095,000
2,435,000
610,000
7,515,000
800,000
4,000,000

$

$1,528,295,000

$500,145,000c

$2,098,545,000

$

10,745,000
1,766,610,000
950,000
10,230,000
21,405,000
11,675,000
136,205,000
20,240,000
5,720,000
14,245,000
23,650,000
76,870,000

$

745,000
1,044,610,000
950,000
10,230,000
6,405,000
2,765,000
78,205,000
10,240,000
720,000
8,245,000
1,150,000
35,770,000

$1,200,035,000d

c Includes $16,565,000 noncompetitive tenders accepted at the average price of 96.501.
d Includes $23,750,000 noncompetitive tenders accepted at the average price of 95.361.




A lfred H ayes ,

President.