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The market for U.S. government debt and its holders, including foreign official buyers like Japan and China, shaping yields and borrowing costs.
Bill Gross told investors to own no bonds except one-year Treasury bills at 4.55%, citing about $84 trillion of credit and federal debt at 100% of GDP. Holding only bills gives up the gain longer bonds would make in a slowdown, and Gross himself expects the debt to bring one.
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Ten-year Treasury yields closed the week at 5.28% after buyers who drove them down to 5.15% on Friday's jobs headlines gave the move back by afternoon. One afternoon's reversal is thin evidence that yields above 5% will hold, though the October 2023 spike never got that reaction.
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Buyers pulled the 10-year Treasury yield from a 24-year high of 5.34% to a 5.233% close on Thursday, after its biggest quarterly rise since 1994. Part of that demand was a flight to safety, and part was a bet that the Fed holds off on further hikes.
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US 10-year Treasury yields rose to 5.30% on Wednesday, their highest since 2002, even though inflation came in cooler. Whatever drove it, growth or government debt, a cash-flow model that counted on cooling inflation to lower its discount rate now needs a higher one.
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Stablecoin issuers have added about $200 billion of Treasuries in five years, roughly 0.05% of the IIF's $365 trillion global debt tally. The bid matters in a US bill market that foreign buyers are leaving, and even the projected $400 billion for 2030 would be about 0.1% of world debt.
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Naked Capitalism says Bessent has moved to contain longer-dated Treasury yields, against the Fed. Duration holders should care more about that than about another Iran sanctions threat.
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Norges Bank wants government bonds cut from 70 percent to 50 percent of its bond benchmark, roughly $80 billion of Treasuries by one estimate, and the buyer stepping in behind it holds paper for a spread it can close in a quarter.
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Brent topped $105 and the 10-year touched 4.902 per cent in the same session. The cash operation blamed for the yield move would cover about 1.5 basis points of annual interest on the debt it was meant to steady.
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Scott Bessent told CNBC on Monday that humans, not the AI, are responsible, and that developers should not expect federal protection from liability. The industry's demand for a shield now has a public no from Treasury.
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Washington is weighing joint ventures with private firms to spread dollar stablecoins overseas and enlarge a sector holding nearly $200 billion of T-bills. A Treasury advisory panel tied new bill demand to adoption by foreign users who held no dollars before.
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Bond traders price about 100bp of further Fed hikes by next summer, with the 10-year Treasury yield up 121bp to 5.18% since the attack on Iran. Borrowers who planned around cuts are now betting against a Fed that voted unanimously to hike eight days ago.
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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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Trump's 2025 executive order and the GENIUS Act's one-for-one reserve rule make stablecoin growth a bid for Treasury bills. The bank consortium's coin is due in the first half of 2027, while Treasury's rulemaking runs into 2028.
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At the New York Fed's annual Treasury market conference, the vice chair tied three years of operational fixes to the market that prices every other asset, while calling the collateral handoff with the Federal Home Loan Banks unfinished work.
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Treasury's repurchase operations rose from $2 billion each to $4 billion as 30-year yields approached a near-20-year high. Stan Druckenmiller called it price management; a Wharton economist who served under Bessent calls it plumbing.
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The Fed's September 16 move to 3.75-4% took the two-year note to nearly 4.75%, which is roughly the top of the range plus the 80 basis points futures have priced. Buyers get carry now. Whether they keep it comes down to August's 0.4% monthly CPI.
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Foreign investors hold about $9.3 trillion of Treasuries, close to a third of publicly held debt, and the Treasury Secretary offered that to the House on September 15 as proof of confidence while the 30-year sat at 5.32%.
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The 10-year traded at 5.039% on the 15th, its highest since July 2007, after Saudi Arabia closed an alternative crude shipping route and oil passed $100. Eighty-five percent of the economists Reuters polled now expect a September Fed hike.
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Hedge funds now hold nearly 7% of the Treasury market and the New York Fed is examining their relative-value strategies. Roughly $830 billion of that book is basis trades financed at up to 50 times equity.
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Yields on 1- to 7-year Treasuries moved as much as 26 basis points in four days, and the short end is now priced for hikes. That changes the base case for anyone financing 2026.
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