When Treasury auctions go well, Veldkamp said, “it means that all of the bonds that the U.S. government wanted to get sold, that somebody actually showed up and bought them. And that they bought them at a price that was roughly what we expected the price to be.”

An auction of $22 billion in 30-year Treasury bonds saw solid demand on Thursday. The auction, along with a strong sale of 10-year bonds the prior day, should allay some fears about buyers running away from U.

Investor appetite for U.S. government debt continued to hold up on Thursday, as demonstrated by the results of a $22 billion auction of 30-year Treasury bonds that came just one day after a shockingly strong $39 billion 10-year Treasury auction.