April 05, 2011

Federal Reserve announces results of auction of $5 billion in 28-day term deposits held on April 4, 2011

For release at 12:00 p.m. EDT

On April 4, 2011, the Federal Reserve conducted an auction of $5 billion in 28-day term deposits through its Term Deposit Facility. Following are the results of the auction:
 

TDF Auction ID: A17
Competitive Amount Offered:           $5,000,000,000
Competitive Amount Tendered: $10,988,490,000
Competitive Amount Awarded:         $5,000,010,000
Non-Competitive Amount Awarded: $80,800,000
Total Amount Awarded:        $5,080,810,000
   
Stop-Out Rate: 0.26000 percent
Bid-to-Cover Ratio (Competitive Auction): 2.20
   
Number of Bids Submitted:   59
Number of Participants Submitting Bids: 43

Bids at the stop-out rate were pro-rated at 11.62 percent. Resulting awards were rounded to the nearest $10,000 except that all awards below $10,000 were rounded up to $10,000.

The awarded deposits will settle on April 7, 2011, and will mature on May 5, 2011. The stop-out rate shown above will apply to all awarded deposits.

Last Update: April 05, 2011