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FEDERAL RESERVE BANK
O F N EW YORK
Fiscal Agent of the United States
C ircu lar N o . 7 5 3 6
D ecem ber 2 6 , 1974

R E S U L T S OF A U C T I O N OF 2 - Y E A R T R E A S U R Y N O T E S

To All Banking Institutions, and Others Concerned,
in the Second Federal Reserve District:

The following statement was made public December 2 3
by t h e T r e a s u r y D e p a r t m e n t :

The Treasury has accepted $2.0 billion of the $2.8 billion
of tenders received from the public for the 2-year notes auctioned
today. The range of accepted competivive bids was as follows:
Lowest y i e l d . ..7 »15% 1
Highest yield.. 1.31%
Average yield..7*32$

E x cep tin g fiv e tenders totalin g 1 5 ,1 8 0 ,0 0 0

The interest rate on the notes will be 1-l/hf. At the 1-1/hi
rate, the above yields result in the following prices:
Low-yield p r i c e ......1 0 0 . 1 8 3
High-yield p r i c e .... 99*781
Average-yield p r i c e . ..99*872
The $2.0 billion of accepted tenders includes 39$ of the
amount of notes bid for at the highest yield, and $0.2 billion of
noncompetitive tenders accepted at the average yield.
In addition, $0.3 billion of tenders were accepted at the
average-yield price from Government accounts and from Federal
Reserve Banks for themselves and as agents of foreign and inter­
national monetary authorities.




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