{"id":658214,"date":"2026-08-26T17:49:29","date_gmt":"2026-08-26T17:49:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/?p=658214"},"modified":"2026-08-26T17:49:29","modified_gmt":"2026-08-26T17:49:29","slug":"yields-hit-session-high-after-subpar-5y-auction-tails-for-10th-consecutive-time-as-foreign-buyers-shrink","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/?p=658214","title":{"rendered":"Yields Hit Session High After Subpar 5Y Auction Tails For 10th Consecutive Time As Foreign Buyers Shrink"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"field field--name-title field--type-string field--label-hidden\">Yields Hit Session High After Subpar 5Y Auction Tails For 10th Consecutive Time As Foreign Buyers Shrink<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"clearfix text-formatted field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field__item\">\n<p>While yesterday&#8217;s 2 Year auction was absolutely blockbuster, today&#8217;s sale of 5Y paper left quite a bit to be desired.<\/p>\n<p>Starting at the top, today&#8217;s sale of $70BN in 2Y paper priced at a high yield of 4.393%, which was modestly below last month&#8217;s 4.408% if at the high end of all auctions in the past few years. It also tailed the When Issued 4.391% by 0.2bps, which was the 15th consecutive auction without a Stop Through, <strong>and the 10th tailing auction in a row.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a data-image-external-href=\"\" data-image-href=\"\/s3\/files\/inline-images\/5Y%20tail%20aug%2026.jpg?itok=mwmNvPFJ\" data-link-option=\"0\" href=\"https:\/\/cms.zerohedge.com\/s3\/files\/inline-images\/5Y%20tail%20aug%2026.jpg?itok=mwmNvPFJ\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" data-entity-type=\"file\" data-entity-uuid=\"a2a52d70-c40a-4f0d-9c64-5700a3e5ef3f\" data-responsive-image-style=\"inline_images\" height=\"287\" width=\"500\" class=\"inline-images image-style-inline-images\" src=\"https:\/\/assets.zerohedge.com\/s3fs-public\/styles\/inline_image_mobile\/public\/inline-images\/5Y%20tail%20aug%2026.jpg?itok=mwmNvPFJ\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The bid to cover was 2.37, an improvement to last month&#8217;s 2.28 and better than the recent average of 2.32. It was also the highest bid to cover going back to November 2025.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The internals were weaker, with foreign buyers taking down 61.5%, up from 59.2% last month if below the recent average of 65.4%. And with Directs hanging in there, and taking 28.4% of the auction, the most since January, Dealers were left holding 10.0%, the lowest since December.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a data-image-external-href=\"\" data-image-href=\"\/s3\/files\/inline-images\/5Y%20August%202026.jpg?itok=YymTXTbK\" data-link-option=\"0\" href=\"https:\/\/cms.zerohedge.com\/s3\/files\/inline-images\/5Y%20August%202026.jpg?itok=YymTXTbK\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-entity-type=\"file\" data-entity-uuid=\"c86db0c8-7878-4930-ba6a-00dd6361c658\" data-responsive-image-style=\"inline_images\" height=\"314\" width=\"500\" class=\"inline-images image-style-inline-images\" src=\"https:\/\/assets.zerohedge.com\/s3fs-public\/styles\/inline_image_mobile\/public\/inline-images\/5Y%20August%202026.jpg?itok=YymTXTbK\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Overall, this was a solid, if notably weaker auction than yesterday&#8217;s phenomenal 2Y sale, and the continued drift higher in the 10Y yield and the entire curve to session highs, confirmed the market&#8217;s muted reception.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>      <span class=\"field field--name-uid field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden\"><a title=\"View user profile.\" href=\"https:\/\/cms.zerohedge.com\/users\/tyler-durden\" lang=\"\" class=\"username\" xml:lang=\"\">Tyler Durden<\/a><\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"field field--name-created field--type-created field--label-hidden\">Wed, 08\/26\/2026 &#8211; 13:49<\/span><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/assets.zerohedge.com\/s3fs-public\/styles\/inline_image_mobile\/public\/inline-images\/5Y%20tail%20aug%2026.jpg?itok=mwmNvPFJ\" title=\"Yields Hit Session High After Subpar 5Y Auction Tails For 10th Consecutive Time As Foreign Buyers Shrink\" \/><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yields Hit Session High After Subpar 5Y Auction Tails For 10th Consecutive Time As Foreign Buyers Shrink While yesterday&#8217;s 2 Year auction was absolutely blockbuster, today&#8217;s sale of 5Y paper left quite a bit to be desired. Starting at the top, today&#8217;s sale of $70BN in 2Y paper priced at a high yield of 4.393%,&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/?p=658214\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Yields Hit Session High After Subpar 5Y Auction Tails For 10th Consecutive Time As Foreign Buyers Shrink<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":658215,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":[],"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[17,22,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-658214","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-border-security","category-immigration","category-immigration-reform","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/658214","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=658214"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/658214\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/658215"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=658214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=658214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=658214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}