Research Guides: Municipal and Government Bonds: Government Bonds

Find Bond Data on Bloomberg

Bloomberg Professional
Provides real-time (delayed 15 minutes) and historical access to data, analytics, news, and other information related to financial asset classes: equities, FX, money, fixed income, commodities and energy.

To find US Treasury Bonds enter:

CT10 <GOVT> <GO> for the 10 year bond

CT5 <GOVT> <GO> for the 5 year bond

To find the 3 month T-Bill enter:

CB3 <GOVT> <GO>

To go to the live market monitor for Treasuries and mortgage bonds enter:

FIT <GO>

To find benchmark government bonds from around the world enter:

WB <GO> for a list

GGR <GO> for generic rates for benchmark bonds

To see the top bond news enter:

TOP BON <GO>

Featured Books

American Bonds: how credit markets shaped a nation by Sarah L. Quinn. Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, 2019
Call Number: HG4936 .Q56 2019
Birth of a Market: the U.S. Treasury securities market from the Great War to the Great Depression by Kenneth D. Garbade Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c2012.
Call Number: eBook and HG4715 .G37 2012

Treasuries

Primary Dealer Statistics
Primary dealers report weekly on their trading activities, as well as on cash, and financing market positions in Treasury and other securities. Data covers from January 25, 1998 to present.
Treasury Direct
Product information and research for all types of Treasury Securities. Consumer accounts for purchasing Treasuries.
How Treasury Auctions Work
Including the latest auction data. From TreasuryDirect.
Bloomberg Market Data - U.S. Government Bonds, Treasury & Municipal Bonds
Monthly Statement of the Public Debt
Summary of treasury securities outstanding. Historical data starting from 1879.
Treasury International Capital (TIC) System
The Resource Center for the U.S. Department of the Treasury. Find data on U.S. International Portfolio Investment and transactions of U.S. securities by U.S. and international holders.

GSEs

Federal agency debt is issued by various government-sponsored enterprises (GSEs). They fund loans to borrowers such as homeowners, farmers and students.

Mortgage Industry

Mortgage Industry
Overview of the mortgage industry with the latest annual data from the Insurance Information Institute.
Housing Finance Reform Resource Center
SIFMA documents on regulating the mortgaged-backed securities markets.
Mortgage Bankers Association. Data and Forecasts
Research from the MBA covering residential, commercial and multifamily real estate finance.