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Issuer of the $25 billion 30-year bond sale that cleared at 5.216%; recently tweaked its quarterly debt-sales guidance and did not comment for the story.
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A 30-year yield above 5.33% and Iran-driven oil prices are overwhelming good numbers from good companies. Walmart down 9% and Micron down 20% from its highs tell the same story.
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Proposed regs cap eligible investments at 0.1% in annual fees and require an unleveraged US equity index fund until the year the child turns 17. Seven million accounts are already open.
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A new Office of Conservation Easements centralizes enforcement strategy while the uniform settlement initiative ends. The terms did not change; who has to start the conversation did.
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Proposed IRS rules would treat the refunded portion of four credits, including the EITC and Child Tax Credit, as federal public benefits, with a status test measured on the filing date.
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The Aug. 19 update splits the OBBBA's statutory rewrites from mere clarifications, and ends reliance on a 2020 proposed rule that let CFC income pad adjusted taxable income.
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Intel 471 says sanctions thinned the top tier of criminal hosting and upstarts filled the gap. The practical effect is that each takedown and each ASN block now covers less of the market.
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Steve Hanke says a "deadly cocktail" has pushed Treasury yields through the informal 4.5% and 5% markers Scott Bessent defends, and he expects another 50 basis points on the 10-year.
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Foreign official holdings are down to $3.78 trillion, the lowest in over two years, while private foreign holdings sit at a record $5.52 trillion. Japan supplied over half the selling.
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A memorandum dated August 12, 2026 lets vetted companies disrupt criminal networks under DOJ and DHS supervision. The entry ticket is a $1 million bond, according to Crypto Briefing.
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The GENIUS Act proposal extends liability to exchanges and intermediaries, including offshore firms touching U.S. customers, and demands documented due diligence on foreign issuers.
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Alejandro Betancourt is helping the Trump administration pick assets and partners in Caracas. With no competitive bidding and majors staying out, the beneficiaries are small US operators.
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The 30-year auction cleared at the highest yield since 2001 and the 10-year at the highest since 2007. Funding cost, not demand, is the constraint, and it is already moving FX policy.
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The first joint US-Japan yen intervention in three decades moved the rate about seven yen and handed much of it back, leaving the carry trade as the live risk.
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A conditional national trust charter would let the Trump-linked issuer combine minting, custody and reserve management under one federal supervisor. Ripple and Circle are ahead of it in the queue.
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FinCEN's 2023-2025 data shows depository institutions rarely flag smuggling money, but when they do the sums are large. The typologies are plain retail banking.
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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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