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FED ER A L R ESER VE BANK
O F NEW YORK
Fiscal Agent of the United States

I*Circular No. 7 4 0 3 1
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May 31,1974

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Results of Treasury’ s Offer of $800 Million Strip of W eekly Bills
To All Incorporated Bunks 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:
T enders fo r additional amounts o f eight series of T reasury bills to an aggregate amount
o f $800,000,000, or thereabouts, to be issued June 5, 1974, were opened at the Federal R e ­
serve Banks today. T h e amount o f accepted tenders will be equally divided am ong the eight
issues of outstanding Treasury bills maturing September 19, September 26, O ctober 3, O c ­
tober 10, O ctober 17, O ctober 24, O ctober 31, and N ovem ber 7, 1974.
T he details o f the offering are as fo llo w s:
Range of Accepted Competitive Bids

Price

Approx. equiv. annual rate
of discount based on 130.5 days (average
number of days to maturity)

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

97.018

8 .2 2 6 %

L o w ............................

96.981

8 .3 2 8 %

A verage .....................

96.997

8 .2 8 4 % i

H igh

1 This is on a bank discount basis. The equivalent coupon issue yield is 8.66 percent.

(6 9 percent of the amount bid for at the low price was accepted.)
Tenders Applied for and Accepted (By Federal Reserve District)
Federal Reserve District

Boston ...................................................... .....
N ew Y o rk ............................................... ......
Philadelphia .............................................
Cleveland .................................................
R ichm ond .................................................
Atlanta ...................................................... .....
Chicago ......................................................
St. L o u i s ....................................................
M inneapolis .............................................
Kansas City ......................... ...................
Dallas ........................................................
San Francisco ........................................




T otals

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

$

Total applied for

Total accepted

19,200,000
1,964,080,000

$

32,160,000
16,160,000
200,000

—
541,600,000
160,000
160,000
200,000

—
333,720,000
15,280,000
10,000,000

—

252,720,000
2,840,000
—

8,000,000
12,000,000
46,640,000

2,400,000

$2,457,440,000

$800,160,000

—

80,000

a Includes $3,480,000 noncompetitive tenders accepted at the average price.

A lfred H a y e s ,

President.