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Messy 30-Year Treasury Sale

Fed goal of creating inflation leads investors to balk at Treasury offer.

By Emily Barrett | July 12, 2019 at 05:03 PM

Investors balked at the U.S. Treasury’s auction of 30-year bonds as Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell cited low inflation as grounds for a potential interest-rate reduction that’s widely expected at the end of this month.

Bidders at the Thursday sale drove the yield on the re-opened bond line, which was first auctioned in May, to 2.64 percent. That was almost three basis points above the prevailing market level at the bidding deadline, and compared with 2.607 percent at last month’s sale. The dropoff in demand—which was also reflected in a weaker-than-average bid-to-cover ratio—showed investors pushing back on the rallies that took the 30-year yield to a multiyear low of around 2.45 percent earlier this month.

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