The first U.S. floating-rate notes were sold with a high discount margin of 0.045 percent. The spread over three-month Treasury bills, the security's benchmark, was the same at 0.045 percent. The bid-to-cover ratio, which gauges demand by comparing the number of bids with the amount of securities sold, was 5.67.
"The sale came extraordinarily well," said Jim Vogel, head of agency-debt research at FTN Financial in Memphis, Tennessee. "The floaters are money-market yields without the headaches. From the beginning, the floaters have had 'winner' stamped all over it. And the securities came at the perfect time."
The debt offers investors a short-term security that's a hedge against a potential rise in interest rates. The securities are considered short-term because they are benchmarked to a short-term index—the high rate from a 13-week bill. The rate at which interest will accrue on the notes will be re-set daily.
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