Treasuries
Meaning
of Treasury
Source: Webster's dictionarySynonyms
Examples
As fear swept through markets last month and fuelled unprecedented volatility, liquidity — the ability to trade without causing significant price moves — deteriorated in Treasuries to its worst since the 2008 financial crisis.
Caryatids are found at the treasuries at Delphi and the Erechtheion on the Acropolis at Athens for Athene.
As of May 22, for example, the yield on 10-year U.S. treasuries was around 0.67%.
Because of their liquidity and perceived low risk, treasuries are used to manage the money supply in the open market operations of non-US central banks.
As a result, the price on US treasuries began to increase and the return began decreasing because there were many buyers, and the return (yield) on other bonds began to increase because there were many sellers (i.e. the price of those bonds fell).
A Bloomberg gauge tracking 20 emerging- market currencies fell for a third day, while the premium investors demand to own devleoping-nation debt over US Treasuries widened one basis point to 290.