Would you tie up your money for five years and earn 1.26 percent the whole time? That’s pretty much where the $57 billion 5-year Treasury note auction went off yesterday. (Keeping things almost misleadingly simple, think about an investor buying a 30-year MBS that yields 2.75 or 3.00 percent… would you do that?)
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