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FED ER A L RESER VE BANK
O F N E W YORK
Fiscal Agent of the United States
C ircular No. 7601
A pril 2, 1975

RESULTS OF AUCTION OF 2CI-MONTH TREASURY NOTES
(Notes of Series N-1976)

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

The following statement was made public yesterday
by the Treasury Department:
The Treasury has accepted $1.5 "billion of the $3.8 billion
of tenders received from the public for the 20-month notes aucĀ­
tioned today. The range of accepted competitive bids was as
follows:
Lowest y i e l d . ..6.95% 1
Highest yield..T-19%
Average yield..7.15%

E x c e p t i n g e i g h t t e n d e r s t o t a l i n g $ 1 , 1 6 0 ,0 0 0 .

The interest rate on the notes will be 7-1/8%. At the 7-1/8%
rate, the above yields result in the following prices:
Low-yield p r i c e ......100.23^High-yield p r i c e .... 99*865
Average-yield price.. 99*926
The $1.5 billion of accepted tenders includes 19% of the
amount of notes bid for at the highest yield, and $0.1 billion of
noncompetitive tenders accepted at the average yield.
No tenders were received from Government accounts or from
Federal Reserve Banks for themselves and as agents of foreign and
international monetary authorities.




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President