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US net interest payments rose $111 billion this year to roughly $1.08 trillion, on figures a former Senate budget staffer published in Fortune. With debt adding $1 trillion every five months, the bill compounds whether the 5.04% yield reflects oil and inflation or fiscal risk.
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Scope Ratings held the US at AA- and said interest costs will carry debt toward 160% of GDP by 2036 while the primary deficit stays near 3.5%. That makes the forecast depend on Treasury yields and on how the post-midterm Congress handles the debt limit.
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US payrolls rose 29,000 in September against a 90,000 forecast and revisions turned July negative, all but ruling out an October Fed hike. Economists cited by Reuters still call inflation the Fed's main input, so Q4 plans can drop the hike case and hold rates flat.
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France's five-year default swaps rose to 81 basis points on Friday as its 10-year yield hit 4.989%, the highest since 2002. Macquarie's Thierry Wizman calls outright default unlikely but puts the odds of a budget-straining National Rally presidency near 50%.
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France says its new budget will overshoot EU spending limits and lift debt to a record near 122% of GDP, even after 54 billion euros of cuts. Lenders now face a ratio still climbing into next year's presidential election, with candidates split on how to bring it down.
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SoftBank is marketing junk bonds at yields up to 9.875% to raise more than $11 billion toward nearly $65 billion of OpenAI commitments. The yields are the company's highest ever at those maturities, and high-yield buyers are still competing to lend at them.
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Ten billion dollars of notes plus a billion in euros price around September 24 to fund a commitment approaching $65bn. The 13% stake SoftBank is targeting implies a valuation well below the $730bn cited.
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Japan's 10-year bond yield hit 3.075%, its highest since 1996, after the Bank of Japan raised its policy rate to 1.25%. BlackRock's scenario for money shifting home from Treasuries puts it at $55 billion, 5% of Japan's $1.1 trillion holding.
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More than $20 billion of orders came in against an $11 billion target. The yields that pulled them in sit 2.20 percentage points above the BB-zone dollar average and 25 basis points above the B- average.
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The $10bn SoftBank owes OpenAI on 1 October is the exact size of the dollar leg of the bond it prices on 24 September. Yields on its 2031 paper have moved from 6.7% in January to about 8.2% in September.
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Citigroup and JPMorgan Chase are sponsoring home-equity securitizations filled partly with loans from nonbank channels. The capital rule that makes those deals attractive to a bank is not final. Nonbank sponsors are left competing on cost per deal.
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Japan's ten-year yield is at a thirty-year high and the real yield is still only 1.1%, which is an argument that this repricing is unfinished rather than extreme. The bill lands on whoever owns the duration.
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Ohio's attorney general is now working out a repayment plan across 325 separate restricted funds, which is a harder piece of arithmetic than the deficit that prompted the draw, and nearly 200 colleges did something similar last year.
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The Information puts SoftBank in talks for a majority stake in 1X. The shipment boom cited as context belongs mostly to two Chinese firms, and 1X is not one of them.
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Fed, Equifax and Fitch data for Q2 show delinquency falling across prime and subprime. The 90-plus rate that argued the opposite was stale charge-offs, according to the New York Fed.
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A Hunterbrook report on related-party links to a $135 billion manager took Sammons bonds to their lowest since issuance in a day. The separation Sammons now cites has been on paper since 2024.
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Horizon 1 is delivered at Childress, Texas. Billing only starts after a five-day GPU validation, which is now the number that matters more than the headline contract value.
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Redemption demand is now hitting the caps that semi-liquid funds always disclosed and few buyers priced. The gate, not the default rate, is the risk allocators underwrote.
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Treasury's $25 billion long bond sale drew the highest yield since 2001, a day after the priciest 10-year auction since 2007. Demand showed up, but only at a price.
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