{"id":430745,"date":"2026-05-21T00:40:16","date_gmt":"2026-05-20T17:40:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/market-news\/2026\/05\/us-sells-16-billion-of-20-year-bonds-at-a-high-yield-of-5-122\/"},"modified":"2026-05-21T00:40:16","modified_gmt":"2026-05-20T17:40:16","slug":"us-sells-16-billion-of-20-year-bonds-at-a-high-yield-of-5-122","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/market-news\/2026\/05\/us-sells-16-billion-of-20-year-bonds-at-a-high-yield-of-5-122\/","title":{"rendered":"US sells $16 billion of 20 year bonds at a high yield of 5.122%"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<ul>\n<li>High yield 5.122%<\/li>\n<li>WI level at the time of the auction 5.122%<\/li>\n<li>Tail 0.0 basis points<\/li>\n<li>Bid to cover 2.55X<\/li>\n<li>Directs 22.94%<\/li>\n<li>Indirects 67.67%<\/li>\n<li>Dealers 9.39% <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The dealer takedown was less than the 6-month average of 11.1%. The Bid to cover was a little lower than the average at 2.62x but the international demand saved the day with 67.67% vs 6-month average at 63.5%. <\/p>\n<p>AUCTION GRADE C+<\/p>\n<p>                            This article was written by Greg Michalowski at investinglive.com.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>High yield 5.122% WI level at the time of the auction 5.122% Tail 0.0 basis points Bid to cover 2.55X Directs 22.94% Indirects 67.67% Dealers 9.39% The dealer takedown was less than the 6-month average of 11.1%. The Bid to cover was a little lower than the average at 2.62x but the international demand saved [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":216,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[86],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-430745","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-market-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/430745","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/216"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=430745"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/430745\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=430745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=430745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swingfish.trade\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=430745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}