Treasury skirts $7.4 trillion debt limit
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Awash in red ink, the federal government has torn up its credit card to keep the national debt under the legal $7.384 trillion ceiling.
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U.S. Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson on Wednesday said he expects the federal government to reach its $8.965 trillion statutory debt limit on October 1.
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U.S. Treasury debt prices eased on  Friday, boosting short-term yields as hopes faded the Federal  Reserve might slow the pace of interest rates hikes.
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The federal deficit of the US government hit a record high of 436.9 billion US dollars in the first 11 months of fiscal year of 2004 which will end in this month, the Treasury Department reported on Monday.
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U.S. Treasury debt prices climbed on  Tuesday, sending benchmark 10-year yields to their lowest  levels in nearly four weeks, on buying tied to stock weakness  and news of deadly train blasts in Mumbai, India.
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The US House of Representatives on Thursday prepared to raise the nation&#39;s debt ceiling by $800 billion, taking the new limit to $8.184 trillion.
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The benchmark 10-year US Treasury note&#39;s yield may hold near 4 percent, the lowest since April, as speculation record high oil prices will slow the economy bolsters demand for government debt.
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The U.S. Federal Reserve said on Thursday it will redeem the full amount of maturing Treasury bill holdings of $12.48 billion on January 3, 2008.
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Interest rates on short-term Treasury bills rose in Monday&#39;s auction to the highest levels in more than three years. The Treasury Department auctioned $19 billion in three-month bills at a discount rate of 2.075 percent.
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U.S. Treasury yields closed out the  year on Friday barely an inch away from their starting levels  for the year, defying the Federal Reserve's efforts to tighten  monetary policy.
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WASHINGTON -- Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson told Congress on Wednesday that the federal government will hit the current debt ceiling on Oct. 1.
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The federal deficit surged to a record $413 billion in 2004, the Treasury Department announced Thursday, injecting the figure into a presidential campaign in which the two
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U.S. Treasury debt yields closed out  2004 on Friday barely an inch away from their starting levels  for the year despite the Federal Reserve's campaign to push  official interest higher.
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Treasuries backtracked for a fifth  session running on Monday, extending a rout that has seen  benchmark yields jump a quarter of a percentage point in just a  week.
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U.S. Treasury debt yields hit a  seven-month low on Monday as stubbornly high energy prices  hinted at a slowdown in economic growth.
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U.S. Treasury prices built on early  gains on Wednesday after an auction of five-year debt drew  surprisingly strong demand from indirect bidders, which include  foreign central banks.
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Congress will try to wrap up spending bills and raise the national debt limit to more than $8 trillion.