Tag: US Treasury
US 2 Year Treasury Note breaks 5%
The US 2 Year Treasury Note rose above 5% at approximately 2 AM EDT last night. Highs of 5.007% were recorded at 2:22 and...
Exhaustion with US Treasury issuance a matter of time
The US is issuing two, five and seven year Treasury bonds this week, the second of which will be issued today. The five-year bond...
US Treasuries lost its ‘sell-side’; can clearing and capital rules revive...
Market participants report the current proposals by the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to centrally clear trades in the US Treasuries market are...
Analysis: Market response to US Treasury’s increased borrowing needs
The US Treasury’s need to increase debt issuance, beyond market expectations, has had several effects. Firstly there was a ratings downgrade of the USA...
Unlocking Liquidity for the U.S. Treasury Markets
Unlocking Liquidity for the U.S. Treasury Markets
By MarketAxess | 22 November 2022
Advocating for all-to-all trading has always been the MarketAxess way, but lately, it...
Editorial: Oversight of US bond markets is broken
Oversight of the US bond markets is broken. The world’s sixth largest bank by assets, JP Morgan, was able to manipulate the US Treasury...
“There is no liquidity”: Bond traders report market conditions never seen...
Buy-side bond traders are facing a considerable challenge in matching their investor’s demand for fixed income assets as equity markets plummet. Volumes are up,...
US Treasury recommends HFT firms be identified in TRACE data
By The DESK.
In a review of market structure issued on 6 October 2017, the US Treasury has recommended closing the gap in the granularity...
