Auction Yield Tops 6% for Bill Maturing in Debt-Cap Danger Zone
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Concerns about the debt ceiling and a possible US default helped drive the auction yield on the Treasury’s newest 21-day cash management bill to a remarkable 6.2%.
That’s higher even than the four-week bill sale earlier this month that went off at 5.84%, the most elevated yield for any benchmark sale in over two decades.