re: Bought US Treasury 1y

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I did the bond wizard on US treasuries less than a year, but when I got to the purchase screen it was saying all kids of different shite and I had no idea what any of it meant.

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It means you’re about to buy a $5000 face value treasury note for $4,809.22. You’ll receive $6.25 interest payments on 3/30/23 and 9/30/23, along with a $5000 principal payment on 9/30/23. The math on that works out to an annualized yield of 4.485%.

Treasury bills do not have coupon/interest payments. Treasury notes and bonds do.