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Table    42.
  Weekly average 91-day Treasury Bill (bond equivalent) rates, by quarter: FY    1986-FY 2000

This table lists    the quarterly 91-day Treasury Bill rates for FY86-FY00.

- From FY 1986        to FY 2000, rates for the 91-day Treasury Bills began at 7.4 percent, fluctuated        over time, and dropped to their lowest value (3.1 percent) in the fourth        quarter of FY 1992. Over the next five quarters, the average rate was either        3.1 or 3.2 percent.

- Treasury Bill       rates began inching up again beginning in the third quarter of FY 1994,       rising to 6.0 percent in the second quarter of FY 1995.

- From     FY 1996 through the first three quarters of FY 2000, rates varied between     approximately 4.4 and 5.9 percent. In the fourth quarter of FY 2000, the average     Treasury Bill rates increased to 6.2 percent.



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|Table         42. - Weekly average 91-day Treasury Bill (bond equivalent) rates,         by quarter: FY 1986-FY 2000                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                             
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|1986                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                             
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|1998                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                             
|1999                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                             
|2000                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                             
|NOTES:          Special allowance rates to lenders participating in the Federal Family          Education Loan (FFEL) program are based on the average weekly 91-day Treasury          Bill (bond equivalent) rate for each quarter of the fiscal year. Data          for earlier years appear intable          A-42 in appendix I.
        SOURCE: U.S. Department of Treasury.



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