Sentences with phrase «treasury securities held»

The statute governing the CSRDF gives Treasury authority to redeem existing Treasury securities held by the CSRDF in an amount up to the amount of civil service benefit payments authorized to be made from the CSRDF during the debt issuance suspension period.

At least 80 % of the fund's assets will be invested in U.S. Treasury securities held in the index.

As in the previous exhibit, the Treasury repays the Fed for the maturing securities, which reduces the TGA's balances and the Treasury securities held by the Fed by the same amount.

Debt held by government accounts or intragovernmental debt, such as non-marketable Treasury securities held in accounts administered by the federal government that are owed to program beneficiaries, such as the Social Security Trust Fund.

Debt held by the public, such as Treasury securities held by investors outside the federal government, including that held by individuals, corporations, the Federal Reserve System and foreign, state and local governments.

The GAO study states that 58 percent of Treasury securities held by the public will be maturing over the next four years.

Under the TSLF, the Desk will lend up to $ 200 billion of Treasury securities held by the System Open Market Account to primary dealers secured for a term of 28 days by a pledge of other collateral.

I imagine China carries a lot of clout: «As of October 2008, Chinas Treasury securities holdings were $ 653 billion, accounting for 21.5 % of total foreign ownership of U.S. Treasury securities, making it the largest foreign holder of U.S. Treasuries (replacing Japan in September 2008).»

Also, the Fed continued its «Operation Twist» program through the end of 2012, under which the Fed sold its short - term Treasury security holdings and bought long - term Treasury securities to keep long - term interest rates low.

Not exact matches

One net result of these reforms — and there are certainly many others — has thus far been for banks to hold less Treasury securities and corporate bonds.»

Liquidity: The mere prospect of default is having an impact on the $ 5 trillion repo market, where big banks and investors get short - term loans using their holdings of Treasury securities, mostly T - bills, as collateral.

For instance, Morningstar found that passively managed target - date funds tend to have fewer holdings in high - yield bonds and Treasury inflation - protected securities than their actively managed counterparts.

But the international sector involves not only export and import trade and other current account items (emigrants» remittances, and above all, military spending) but also foreign investment and income — and foreign central bank reserves held in U.S. Treasury and other securities, that is, loans to the U.S. Government.

The Fund currently holds primarily Treasury Inflation Protected Securities (which currently price in expectations of zero inflation for the next decade or more, while reflecting reasonably high inflation - adjusted yields to maturity).

In bonds, the Market Climate continued to be characterized by unfavorable valuations and unfavorable market action, holding the Strategic Total Return Fund to a short 2 - year duration, mostly in Treasury inflation protected securities.

So the Fed has expanded its Treasury holdings by 5-fold (not to mention its ownership of mortgage backed securities has exploded from $ 0 to $ 1.7 trillion over the same period...)

At the same time, what is counted as cash on the sidelines, whether in money market funds, or as tiny balances in equity funds, is nothing but a mountain of short - term debt securities, mostly Treasury bills, that have been issued and must be held by somebody until they are retired.

In addition to the Total Return Fund's positions in TIPS and short - dated Treasury securities, the Fund continues to hold about 30 % of assets in a diversified group of precious metals shares, utility shares, and foreign currencies.

An influx of dollars from OPEC or Asian countries probably would not reduce global central bank holdings of U.S. Treasury securities, but merely would shift these holdings out of OPEC and Islamic central banks to those of Europe and probably East Asia.

You can diversify your holdings since TreasuryDirect offers Treasury bills, notes, bonds, and Treasury Inflation - Protected Securities (TIPS), in addition to savings bonds.

As usual, we need not make specific interest rate forecasts - the fact that prevailing valuations and market action are unfavorable is sufficient to hold the Strategic Total Return Fund to a relatively muted duration of about 2 years, largely in Treasury inflation - protected securities.

By contrast, net US Treasury positions rose during the financial crisis and are now net positive, as dealers have closed short positions (ie positions that rise in value when the price of an asset falls) and accumulated securities holdings (Graph 3, left - hand panel).

the initial sale of U.S. debt obligations and new issues, offered and purchased directly from the U.S. government at a face value set at auction; these securities are auctioned in a single - priced, Dutch auction; auctions are held with the following frequencies: Treasury bills with one - month (30 day), three - month (90 day), and six - month (180 day) maturities are auctioned weekly; treasury notes with two - and five - year maturities are auctioned monthly; Notes with three - year maturities are auctioned in February, May, August, and November; treasury bonds with 10 - year maturities are auctioned in February, May, August, and NTreasury bills with one - month (30 day), three - month (90 day), and six - month (180 day) maturities are auctioned weekly; treasury notes with two - and five - year maturities are auctioned monthly; Notes with three - year maturities are auctioned in February, May, August, and November; treasury bonds with 10 - year maturities are auctioned in February, May, August, and Ntreasury notes with two - and five - year maturities are auctioned monthly; Notes with three - year maturities are auctioned in February, May, August, and November; treasury bonds with 10 - year maturities are auctioned in February, May, August, and Ntreasury bonds with 10 - year maturities are auctioned in February, May, August, and November.

According to a plan laid out by the Fed in June, proceeds from repayments of Treasury bonds, mortgage - backed securities and other holdings will no longer be reinvested in more bonds.

Today, in contrast, the Fed presides over a vast portfolio, with assets consisting mainly of long - term Treasury securities and mortgage - backed securities, instead of the short - term Treasuries it once held; and that portfolio is funded more by banks» holdings of substantial excess reserves than by circulating Federal Reserve notes.

While it has not given details on timing, in the last couple of Fed Open Market Committee (FOMC) meetings, the Fed has indicated its intent to slow down new purchases of Treasuries and agency securities as current holdings mature.

In the long run, the Federal Reserve anticipates that its balance sheet will shrink toward more historically normal levels and that most or all of its security holdings will be Treasury securities.»

Strategic Total Return continues to carry a duration of about 3.5 years in Treasury securities (meaning that a 100 basis point move in interest rates would be expected to impact the Fund by about 3.5 % on the basis of bond price fluctuations), and holds about 10 % of assets in precious metals shares, and about 5 % of assets in utility shares.

Because banks held few excess reserves, it took only modest adjustments to the size of the Fed's balance sheet, achieved by means of open - market purchases or sales of short - term Treasury securities, to make credit more or less scarce, and thereby achieve the Fed's immediate policy objectives.

And third, the wind down would continue until the Fed holds only enough securities to conduct monetary policy «efficiently and effectively» with a portfolio consisting primarily of Treasuries.

-LRB-...) Those who want the security of holding government paper have to lock up their money for just a year to beat the dividend yield on stocks, with the 1 - year Treasury bill yielding 2 %.

It has nearly doubled its holdings of securities, mostly Treasurys and mortgage - backed securities.

It will continue reducing holdings of Treasury securities as they mature.

It will begin reducing it holdings of Treasury securities in October.

Another massive policy shift on the horizon is what the Fed will do with its monstrous holdings of mortgage - backed securities and U.S. Treasuries.

If you are holding corporate bonds, you may want to diversify those positions by adding treasury securities and municipal bonds.

Given that Treasury yields broke through levels that have been a fairly reliable barrier for several years now, it wouldn't be surprising to see bonds stage a «relief rally» here, but both yields and market action remain unfavorable overall, holding the Strategic Total Return Fund to a roughly 2 - year duration, primarily in Treasury inflation - protected securities.

Regardless, it is clear that Saudi Arabia's holdings are only a small share of the roughly $ 14 trillion in Treasury securities not held by the federal government.

Resources Holdings Fund Overview (PDF) Summary Prospectus (PDF): Class P2 * Cash and equivalents includes short - term securities, accrued income, Treasury futures and other assets less liabilities.

WASHINGTON (AP)-- Foreign buyers of U.S. Treasury securities increased their holdings in May to another record high.

The Fed's tendency to favor Treasury and agency securities when conducting monetary policy operations, though innocuous enough when banks hold only minimal excess reserves so that the Fed leaves only a relatively modest «footprint» on overall credit allocation, becomes a serious matter when banks pile - on excess reserves, turning the Fed into the central - bank equivalent of the abominable snowman.

To investigate, we relate weekly, monthly and quarterly U.S. stock market returns to comparable changes in the Federal Reserve's System Open Market Account (SOMA) holdings, comprised of U.S. Treasury bills, U.S. Treasury notes and bonds, U.S. Treasury Inflation - Protected Securities (TIP) and Mortgage - Backed Securities (MBS).

«As of May 2011 the largest single holder of U.S. government debt was China, with 26 percent of all foreign - held U.S. Treasury securities (8 % of total US public debt).»

The parties commit to holding a full Strategic Security and Defence Review alongside the Spending Review with strong involvement of the Treasury.

One is to invest a portion of your bond holdings in TIPS, or Treasury Inflation Protected Securities, which have payouts that track inflation.

In the past, the trust funds have held marketable Treasury securities, which are available to the general public.

The Committee is maintaining its existing policies of reinvesting principal payments from its holdings of agency debt and agency mortgage - backed securities in agency mortgage - backed securities and of rolling over maturing Treasury securities at auction.

Yet someone who buys long - term securities intending to quickly resell rather than hold is a speculator, and thirty - year Treasury bonds have also effectively become trading sardines.

A majority is invested in U.S. Treasury securities, which are held at a custody bank in a safekeeping account segregated for the exclusive benefit of customers.

The Committee will complete its purchases of $ 600 billion of longer - term Treasury securities by the end of this month and will maintain its existing policy of reinvesting principal payments from its securities holdings.