{"id":1512094,"date":"2025-01-06T19:12:36","date_gmt":"2025-01-07T00:12:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/?p=1512094"},"modified":"2025-01-06T19:12:36","modified_gmt":"2025-01-07T00:12:36","slug":"first-bond-auction-of-2025-tails-as-foreign-buyers-slide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/first-bond-auction-of-2025-tails-as-foreign-buyers-slide\/1512094\/","title":{"rendered":"First Bond Auction Of 2025 Tails As Foreign Buyers Slide"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"field field--name-title field--type-string field--label-hidden\">First Bond Auction Of 2025 Tails As Foreign Buyers Slide<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"clearfix text-formatted field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field__item\">\n<p>The first bond auction of 2025 is in the books, and it was about as pretty as the selloff in bonds has been in recent weeks.<\/p>\n<p>Moments ago the Treasury <a href=\"https:\/\/treasurydirect.gov\/instit\/annceresult\/press\/preanre\/2025\/R_20250106_3.pdf\">sold $58 billion in 3 year paper <\/a>in a soggy auction which suggested that, today&#8217;s modest bounce notwithstanding, there is more pain in stock for the rates complex.<\/p>\n<p>The auction priced at a high yield of 4.332%, tailing the When Issued 4.320% by 1.2bps. This was the fourth consecutive tail and the largest once since April.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cms.zerohedge.com\/s3\/files\/inline-images\/3y%20tail%20through.png?itok=3xafClha\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The bid to cover held up, rising to 2.616 from 2.577 in December, and above the six auction average of 2.585.<\/p>\n<p>Internals, however, were nowhere near as solid with Indirects taking down 61.0%, down from 64.2% and the lowest since October (as well as below the recent average of 66.4%).\u00a0 And with Directs taking down 19.4%, down from 20.7% last month, Dealers were left with 19.7%, up from 15.11% and above the six-auction average of 15.8%.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cms.zerohedge.com\/s3\/files\/inline-images\/3Y%20jan%202025.jpg?itok=e1l7uqng\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Not surprisingly, the news of the ugly auction did not help already shaky sentiment, and yields on the benchmark 10Y rose 2bps to 4.63%, just shy of session highs at 4.64%, even as the dollar still remains soggy and down on the session after today&#8217;s fake news report by the WaPo which hammered the greenback just as the WaPo&#8217;s &#8220;anonymous sources&#8221;, who may or may not have been axed in various USD pairs, intended.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>      <span class=\"field field--name-uid field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden\"><a title=\"View user profile.\" href=\"https:\/\/cms.zerohedge.com\/users\/tyler-durden\" class=\"username\">Tyler Durden<\/a><\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"field field--name-created field--type-created field--label-hidden\">Mon, 01\/06\/2025 &#8211; 14:12<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u200b<a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/markets\/first-bond-auction-2025-tails-foreign-buyers-slide\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/markets\/first-bond-auction-2025-tails-foreign-buyers-slide<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First Bond Auction Of 2025 Tails As Foreign Buyers Slide The first bond auction of 2025 is in the books, and it was about as&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":1512095,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1512094","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","wpcat-1-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1512094","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1512094"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1512094\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1512095"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1512094"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1512094"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1512094"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}