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Markets · August 22, 2026 · 2 min read

Treasury’s August 19 Auction of 20-Year Bonds Recorded a 5.204% High Yield

By Econ Data Tools Editorial Team

Published August 22, 2026 • Updated August 22, 2026

Treasury auction records show a $16 billion offering of 20-year nominal bonds drew a 5.204% high yield and a 2.53 bid-to-cover ratio on August 19.

CONFIRMED FACTS The U.S. Treasury’s auction record identifies the August 19, 2026 sale as a single-price auction of 20-year Treasury bonds (CUSIP 912810UX4). The record lists a $16.0 billion offering amount, a 5.204% high yield, and a 2.53 bid-to-cover ratio. It lists $42.476 billion of total tenders and $18.057 billion of total accepted amounts. The security is scheduled to issue on August 31, 2026 and mature on August 15, 2046. Treasury’s result file identifies it as a new 20-year bond, not a reopening. ANALYSIS This auction provides a contemporaneous observation of the terms at which Treasury allocated this specific long-dated security. The reported high yield and bid-to-cover ratio describe the auction outcome, while the $16.0 billion offering amount describes the stated size of the offering. They should not be read as a general measure of all Treasury borrowing costs or of demand across the entire Treasury market. UNKNOWNS AND LIMITS The auction record does not establish why bidders submitted their tenders or how their positions changed afterward. A bid-to-cover ratio is an auction statistic, not a direct measure of investor sentiment. Total accepted amounts in the data include the record’s reported allocation categories; comparisons with the offering amount require attention to those categories and the Treasury auction conventions. This one auction does not determine secondary-market yields, inflation, monetary-policy expectations, or the federal budget deficit.

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