Bessent’s $6 Billion Bond-Buyback Offer Meets a $739 Billion Borrowing Quarter

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Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent has rejected criticism from bond investors over interventions including additional Treasury buybacks and efforts to support the yen, saying he will keep "ignoring the noise." The buybacks temporarily lowered yields, but 10- and 30-year Treasury yiel... Article link

Bessent’s $6 Billion Bond-Buyback Offer Meets a $739 Billion Borrowing Quarter

Scott Bessent’s Treasury offered to buy back as much as $6 billion of older long-dated government bonds on September 10. The market’s answer was a higher yield: the benchmark 10-year Treasury rate reached 4.95% that afternoon and 4.96% on September 11, up from 4.83% before the operation was announced. That tension matters beyond the bond…