Discussion Paper

End‑of‑Month Activity Across the Treasury Market


Abstract: In a 2024 post, we showed that interdealer trading in benchmark U.S. Treasury notes and bonds concentrates on the last trading day of the month, likely due to passive investment funds’ turn-of-month portfolio rebalancing. In this post, we extend our trading activity analysis to the full range of Treasury securities and market segments. We find that trading is even more concentrated on the last trading day of the month for other types of Treasury securities and in the dealer-to-customer segment of the market, with trading volume in off-the-run Treasuries twice as high as on other days, on average.

JEL Classification: G1; G18; H63;

https://doi.org/10.59576/lse.20251009

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Provider: Federal Reserve Bank of New York

Part of Series: Liberty Street Economics

Publication Date: 2025-10-09

Number: 20251009