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FEDERAL RESERVE BANK OF NEW YORK
Fiscal Agent of the United States
r Circular No. 7 0 2 4 1
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October 25, 1972

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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 D istrict:

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 July 31, 1972, and the other series to be dated October 31, 1972, which
were invited on October 18, 1972, were opened at the Federal Reserve Banks today. Tenders were invited
for $500,000,000, or thereabouts, of 273-day bills and for $1,800,000,000, or thereabouts, of 357-day bills. The
details of the two series are as follows:

Range of Accepted Competitive Bids
2y3 -Day Treasury Bills
Maturing July 3 1 , 1973
Price

H ig h .................... ................
Low .................... ................
Average .............. ................

Approx. equiv.
annual rate

96.068
96.023
96.039

5.185%
5.244%
5.223%!

357-Day Treasury Bills
Maturing October 23,1973
Approx. equiv.
annual rate

Price

94.744
94.695
94.726

5.300%
5.350%
5.318%!

1These rates are on a bank discount basis. The equivalent coupon issue yields are 5.46 percent for the 273-day bill;
5.62 percent for the 357-day bills.

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

(44 percent of the amount of 357-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 July 3 1 , 1973
D istrict

Applied for

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

otal

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

$

25,060,000
1,460,225,000
485,000
995,000
21,345,000
2,365,000
150,000,000
16,215,000
18,865,000
11,690,000
32,650,000
70,945,000

$1,810,840,000

357-Day Treasury Bills
Maturing October 23, 1973

Accepted

Applied for

60,000
362,225,000
485,000
995,000
11,345,000
365,000
57,500,000
10,215,000
3,865,000
1,690,000
2,650,000
48,945,000

$ 78,010,000
2,726,865,000
19,750,000
26,470,000
15,375,000
6,550,000
280,845,000
15,595,000
16,890,000
16,640,000
13,860,000
114,825,000

$

$500,340,000a

$3,331,675,000

$1,800,630,000b

$

Accepted

13,010,000
1,549,965,000
3,750,000
11,470,000
10,255,000
1,990,000
119,520,000
9,595,000
10,890,000
4,640,000
3,860,000
61,685,000

^Includes $12,555,000 noncompetitive tenders accepted at the average price of 96.039.
^Includes $28,335,000 noncompetitive tenders accepted at the average price of 94.726.




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