US Bond Auction

Weak demand at 8-Week Treasury auction

October 15, 2026 · 12:01 pm EDT · Automatic alert from live data

8-Week bid-to-cover, recent auctions (dashed: average) — recent trend

The 8-Week Treasury auction on 2026-10-15 showed weak demand: bid-to-cover 2.26x vs. a recent average of 2.84x. Awarded yield 4.132%, vs. 4.060% at the previous 8-Week auction on 2026-10-08.

8-Week bid-to-cover, recent auctions, 15 Oct 2026

2.26x

Recent readings

Date

Reading

Vs. previous

Oct 15, 2026

2.26x

▼ -18.4%

Oct 8, 2026

2.77x

▲ +2.6%

Oct 1, 2026

2.70x

▼ -2.2%

Sep 24, 2026

2.76x

▼ -6.1%

Sep 17, 2026

2.94x

▲ +4.3%

Sep 10, 2026

2.82x

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Why this matters

Weak demand at a Treasury auction is one of the clearest real-time signals of how the market actually views government creditworthiness — not commentary, but money changing hands.

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