Aggregated Perspectives on Treasury Auction Sizes, April 2022

MEAN STD MEAN STD MEAN STD MEAN STD MEAN STD MEAN STD MEAN STD MEAN STD MEAN STD

Coupons

46.7 1.9 43.9 2.2 48.6 1.8 48.2 2.7 44.1 4.5 51.5 3.2 49.3 3.9 44.5 5.1 53.3 5.0

44.6 1.9 41.9 2.1 46.5 1.7 46.1 2.6 41.9 4.4 49.3 3.0 47.2 3.9 42.3 5.1 51.2 5.0

47.7 1.9 44.9 2.2 49.6 1.8 49.2 2.6 45.0 4.4 52.4 3.0 50.3 3.9 45.5 5.1 54.3 5.0

40.2 2.6 37.5 2.7 43.1 2.3 41.8 3.9 38.1 4.7 45.5 3.8 42.9 4.5 38.6 4.9 47.1 5.2

35.9 0.7 34.3 1.4 37.4 1.3 36.7 2.2 34.3 2.5 39.3 3.0 37.0 1.9 34.1 2.5 40.4 3.3

32.9 0.7 31.3 1.4 34.4 1.3 33.7 2.2 31.2 2.5 36.2 3.0 34.0 1.9 31.0 2.4 37.3 3.4

16.8 1.2 15.1 1.4 18.3 1.4 17.3 2.0 14.7 2.3 19.5 2.5 17.4 1.7 14.5 2.0 20.0 2.6

13.8 1.2 12.1 1.4 15.4 1.3 14.3 2.0 11.7 2.3 16.5 2.4 14.4 1.6 11.6 2.0 17.1 2.5

21.9 0.7 20.5 1.4 23.2 1.2 22.7 2.2 20.5 2.3 24.9 2.5 22.8 2.0 20.2 2.4 25.8 3.0

18.9 0.7 17.5 1.4 20.2 1.2 19.7 2.2 17.5 2.3 21.8 2.5 19.8 2.0 17.2 2.4 22.9 3.0

TIPS

20.1 0.3 19.6 0.7 21.3 0.8 20.9 1.0 19.9 0.7 22.8 1.5 21.4 1.6 19.9 0.8 23.5 1.9

18.1 0.3 17.6 0.7 19.5 0.8 18.9 0.9 17.8 0.7 20.7 1.5 19.5 1.6 17.9 0.9 21.7 2.2

16.6 0.6 16.0 0.8 17.8 0.9 17.1 0.8 16.2 0.7 18.8 1.3 17.5 1.0 16.1 0.8 19.4 1.6

14.5 0.6 13.9 0.8 15.7 0.9 15.0 0.9 14.1 0.8 16.6 1.4 15.4 1.1 14.0 0.8 17.2 1.7

9.0 0.0 8.7 0.5 9.6 0.6 9.2 0.4 8.7 0.5 10.3 0.9 9.4 0.6 8.7 0.5 10.7 1.1

8.0 0.0 7.7 0.5 8.7 0.6 8.2 0.4 7.7 0.6 9.3 0.9 8.4 0.6 7.6 0.5 9.7 1.1

FRNs

23.4 0.9 22.0 1.3 24.7 1.1 24.2 1.6 22.3 1.6 26.6 2.4 24.3 1.6 22.3 1.9 27.1 2.8

21.2 1.0 19.9 1.1 22.5 1.1 22.0 1.3 20.1 1.4 24.4 2.2 22.2 1.7 20.1 2.0 25.0 2.9

Bills

42.0 10.2 35.4 8.2 53.4 12.2 47.9 9.8 39.8 9.0 57.8 11.4 51.3 11.0 42.5 10.4 62.4 12.9

36.0 7.0 30.0 4.9 47.4 9.9 43.6 8.3 35.2 7.1 53.0 10.3 46.1 10.4 37.7 9.0 57.1 11.7

56.6 4.4 49.8 4.7 63.3 4.1 60.2 4.7 52.3 6.1 66.3 5.3 62.8 6.1 54.1 6.9 69.0 6.4

49.3 4.5 44.9 4.4 55.4 3.7 52.4 4.7 47.1 5.4 58.4 4.7 54.5 6.1 48.9 6.4 60.8 6.2

34.5 1.4 32.8 1.6 36.5 2.9 35.8 2.1 33.2 2.0 38.1 3.6 36.3 3.1 33.9 2.7 39.6 4.7

1-mo bill

2-mo bill

3-mo bill

6-mo bill

1-year bill

2-year FRN (reop)

20-year (new)

20-year (reop)

30-year (new)

30-year (reop)

5-year TIPS (new)

5-year TIPS (reop)

10-year TIPS (new)

10-year TIPS (reop)

30-year TIPS (new)

30-year TIPS (reop)

2-year FRN

10-year (reop)

Range that would not surprise you

Low High Low High Low High

2-year

3-year

5-year

7-year

10-year (new)

The Treasury Department’s Office of Debt Management (ODM) would like your perspectives on Treasury auction sizes. This information would be used to help test ODM’s debt-issuance modeling assumptions, and does not 

reflect potential policy decisions. We appreciate your participation in a similar survey conducted in November 2021, and the aggregate response can be found online at

https://home.treasury.gov/policy-issues/financing-the-government/quarterly-refunding/quarterly-refunding-archives/primary-dealer-auction-size-survey

Given your expectations for borrowing needs over the next three fiscal years (as presented in question 1), Treasury would like your expectations for:

1. Auction sizes ($bn) in all tenors by the end of FY22, FY23, and FY24, and

2. Auction size ranges ($bn) that would not surprise you across all tenors by the end of FY22, FY23, and FY24.

Auction size estimates should take into account the amount net of SOMA add-ons of Treasury securities.

The Treasury Department’s ODM surveyed all 25 primary dealers on their firms’ perspectives on Treasury auction sizes. The results presented below are “trimmed mean” and “trimmed standard deviation”. That is, the high and low 

values of all 25 responses for any maturity tranche are deleted before computing the average and standard deviation.

Tenor

Size Expectations 

for FY22 Year-End

Range that would not surprise you Size Expectations 

for FY23 Year-End

Range that would not surprise you Size Expectations 

for FY24 Year-End