Friday, March 30, 2007

UPDATE 2-Federal agency debt issuance rose in first quarter

(Reuters) - This year, like last year, a large share of the debt was issued to replace securities that matured or were called, tempering net new supply, analysts said.

After stripping out debt such as callables and certain short-term notes, Thomson said that agencies issuance fell in the first quarter to $88.6 billion from $91.5 billion in the same quarter of 2006.


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