Meanwhile, Italy sold its targeted amount in six-month Treasury bills, while funding costs edged lower.
That policy idea would reduce the use of short-term Treasury bills (LFTs in Brazil) debt.
Three month Treasury bills yielded 0.74% late in the day, up from 0.55% on Monday.
For fixed-income investments like bonds and Treasury bills, inflation is of course a huge threat.
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ING, for instance, wants to sell local debt instruments, like Brazilian treasury bills, to foreign investors.
So they've been selling stocks and moving their money into safer investments, like Treasury bills.
Force financial institutions to buy treasury bills that yield far less than the rate of inflation.
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It's made no such promises for most of its official Treasury bills and bonds.
Many firms have been just throwing money in their cash accounts or grudgingly investing in treasury bills.
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Spain's government sold a batch of short-term Treasury bills at significantly lower yields than in June's auction.
Would Treasury bills and bonds, which are the foundation of the world financial system, suddenly become worthless?
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Not a bad return when interest rates are flat and 10-year Treasury bills are yielding about 3.4%.
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The yield on one-month Treasury bills fell to 0.19%, from 0.25%, while the three-month bill offered 0.66%, down from 0.83%.
The only difference is that the Fed issues money rather than treasury bills in exchange for its purchases.
With 10-year Treasury bills inching above 3.5%, a good earnings yield generally is considered somewhere north of 5.5%.
In contrast, two-year Treasury bonds are yielding 0.25 percent and three-month Treasury Bills are yielding only 0.07 percent.
Of course some investors make a killing, but on average hedge funds have underperformed even risk-free Treasury bills.
Another option: Have your bank or broker buy U.S. Treasury bills in a noncompetitive tender at the next auction.
Avoid that by putting up Treasury bills, on which you earn the return.
You know, it might seem hard to believe, but Treasury Bills are still considered a safe place to invest.
You could have done better than that in Treasury bills with no risk.
The yield on ten-year government bonds has climbed to almost 5.2%, compared to 3.4% on similar American treasury bills.
Sure, compared with the alternative, which is to buy U.S. Treasury bills.
In those days U.S. Treasury bills and bonds were not acceptable as collateral for note issuance at the reserve banks.
Another thing people are doing right now is putting money into government Treasury Bills, basically lending it to the government.
Until recently the Federal Reserve owned rather safe assets like gold, short-term Treasury bills and the short-term IOUs of commercial banks.
As Jason Zweig of the Wall Street Journal recently noted, the United States defaulted on some Treasury bills in 1979.
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Certificates of deposit and short-term Treasury bills are plenty safe but do little more than keep up with inflation long term.
Since 1926 stocks have returned approximately 10% annualized and Treasury bills (a proxy for the so-called risk-free rate) have returned 4%.
Often, the distinction is made that quantitative easing implies the purchase of longer-term Treasury bonds rather than short term Treasury bills.
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