You can buy 20- to 30-year bonds at yields equivalent to taxable Treasuries.
It also shifted €1.6bn of three-year debt at yields of 3.227%, down from 3.676%.
Tesco is selling £514 million ($817 million) of property at yields of 5to6percentent.
LATVIA and Iceland successfully issued sovereign bonds at yields approaching Spain's last week.
And high-yield bonds are trading at yields that are almost 9 percentage points higher than comparable Treasury securities.
At yields like these, the governments in Rome and Madrid will face great difficulty in financing themselves.
The debt was all sold at yields of up to 1.045%, which Reuters says was in line with market expectations.
Bills maturing early next year are trading at yields about a tenth the level of the Oct. 24 bill.
The $9.7 million Marineland bonds were first sold in 1995 at yields of 81/2percentnt in minimum denominations of $100,000.
"At yields higher than those of Treasuries, muni-bond returns are looking downright stocklike, with just a fraction of the risk," Janet Paskin writes.
For years, China's government was eager to buy American debt at yields many in the private sector felt were too low.
