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F E D E R A L R ESER VE BANK
O F NEW YORK
Fiscal

A g e n t o f t he U n i t e d S t a t e s

C ircu lar No. 7063
D ecem ber 21 , 1972

To A ll B anking In stitu tio n s, and O thers Concerned,
in the Second F ederal R e se rv e D istrict:

The following statement was made public yesterday by the
Treasury Department:

RESULTS OF TREASURY NOTE AUCTION

The Treasury announced that it has accepted $2.0 billion of
the $5.6 billion of tenders received for its new 5 7/8 percent
2-year notes auctioned today.
The range of accepted competitive
bids was as follows:

P rice

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

Approx. y ie ld

100.291
100.05
100.09

5.72%
5.85#
5*83%

1Excepting one tender of $300 ,000 .

The $2.0 billion of accepted tenders includes 83 percent of
the amount of notes bid for at the low price, and $0.3 billion of
noncompetitive tenders accepted at the average price.




Alfred Hayes,
P r e s id e n t.