most trades in T-bills to the common man require a very large spread/discount. the difference between the buy and sell price for modest quantities(under 100k) cost one close to 1% of interest. certainly 1/2% interest. the best place to lookand buy for smallest spread i have found is:
http://www.zionsbank.com/zd_bonds_about-guest.jsp if you plan to buy new treasuries, then the federal givernment is the best deal http://www.savingsbonds.gov/ you pay no discount to buy. At 01:38 PM 3/11/2008, you wrote: >>I like spreadsheets. Google Spreadsheets has a function for retrieving >>information from the cloud. I wonder how well that would work on getting >>financial statistics? That would certainly be a great way to leverage the >>Web. > >I started to look at GoogleLookup and then noticed a GoogleFinance >function. It covers stocks and mutual funds. Apparently does not include >things like T Bills. > > >************************************************************************* >** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** >** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** >************************************************************************* ************************************************************************* ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *************************************************************************
