Treasury Announces Expanded Bond Buybacks Amid Rising Interest Rates and Inflation Concern

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  1. After Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent announced on Wednesday the Treasury would be doubling its buybacks of government bonds in the 10-30 year tenor, the gold price ripped 3% to the $4,550 an ounce level. The Van Eck Gold Miners exchange-traded fund GDX spiked more than 9%.

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    Bloomberg

    Treasury Buyback Gives Gold Another Lease of Life, UBS Says UBS Chief Strategist Bhanu Baweja discusses Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent’s plan to increase buybacks of longer-dated debt and its impact on wider markets including currencies and gold. "The fact that they want to keep long-end yields in check probably gives another lease of life to the gold trade," Baweja tells Bloomberg Television. (Source: Bloomberg)

  2. Yields on long-term U.S. bonds fell midweek after the Treasury Department said it would expand long-end debt buybacks amid climbing rates.

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    NPR Economy

    Audio will be available later today. NPR's Leila Fadel speaks with Bloomberg's Stacey Vanek Smith about why the U.S. Treasury acted to push down long-term bond yields and how that relates to the ballooning U.S. debt.

    CNBC

    The buybacks follow two other recent steps that have also effectively stemmed the rise in long-term Treasury yields.

    BBC Business

    Published Long-term borrowing costs in the US eased on Wednesday after the Treasury department announced it would buy back more debt.

  3. The recent surge in bond yields has been driven by rising oil prices caused by the US-Iran war, with investors concerned over inflation.

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    Common Dreams

    Experts say that bond yields have been spiking to highs not seen since the start of the Great Recession due to investor anxiety over a number of factors, including inflation, the size of the US government's debt, and Trump's illegal war with Iran.

    Epoch Times Business

    A broad array of factors has pushed up yields, including persistent war-driven inflation fears, fiscal worries, potential monetary policy tightening, and competition from artificial intelligence-related corporate bonds.

  4. In announcing that it will buy back "at least" $4 billion worth of bonds over a two-month period, the US Department of Treasury said it was seeking "to provide greater liquidity support in longer-dated nominal sectors where there is consistent strong sponsorship from market participants."

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    BBC Business

    The Treasury Department said its intervention reflected its "desire to provide greater liquidity support" for longer-term bonds.

  5. US Treasury to double buybacks of long-term government debt Sharp sell-off in recent weeks has sent borrowing costs soaring

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    CNBC

    The Treasury Department on Wednesday said it would increase its buybacks of long-term Treasury debt, raising the maximum it will buy from $2 billion to at least $4 billion. The intervention had the effect of stemming a sell-off in the Treasury market that has pushed up yields to uncomfortable levels in recent days. The selloff had dominated global headlines as investors worried that rising Treasury yields would worsen an affordability crisis for consumers, complicate businesses' borrowing plans, threaten stock-market gains and make it more expensive for the government to finance its burgeoning debt.

    Epoch Times Business

    From Sept. 9, the Treasury will double the size of its government debt repurchases to $4 billion, focusing its buyback operations on 10- to 20-year and 20- to 30-year bonds.

    MarketWatch

    The effect of a debt buyback can be to push prices higher and yields lower The Treasury Department said Wednesday that it will more than double the size of government-debt buybacks, sending yields sharply lower and stocks higher at the market open.

    Common Dreams

    The Trump administration on Wednesday unveiled a plan to ease upward pressure on the cost of US debt by doubling its bond buybacks through November.

  6. While the announcement did result in interest rates for US treasuries dropping, economists and other political observers are warning that Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent's scheme to stop spiking yields will prove ineffective over the long term.

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    CNBC

    Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent is in the midst of a historic effort to tamp down long-term Treasury yields. He may also be complicating the work of his counterpart at the Federal Reserve, Chairman Kevin Warsh.

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  1. 01 Bloomberg

    Treasury Action Not a Fed Game Changer for September, Says Evercore’s Guha Krishna Guha, vice chair and head of central bank strategy at Evercore ISI, says the US Treasury Department’s move to increase its planned purchases of outstanding 10-year to 30-year debt “certainly complicates things” for Federal Reserve Chairman Kevin Warsh, but won’t impact the central bank’s September decision on interest rates. (Source: Bloomberg)

  2. 02 BBC Business

    The move came after the interest rate on 30-year bonds, which are a type of debt used to raise funds from investors, hit 5.34% on Tuesday - the highest level in almost 20 years.

  3. 03 CNBC

    Bond yields edged higher on Thursday morning after pulling back sharply during the previous session following the Treasury Department's move to dramatically ramp up government debt repurchases in a bid to shore up longer-dated debt.

  4. 04 Common Dreams

    5 #000000 #FFFFFF "Trump is going to pump billions of dollars into the bond market to push down interest rates through the election, then let everything fall apart again," said one critic.

  5. 05 MarketWatch

    Need to Know Treasury’s bond buyback blitz may end up driving yields higher, warns JPMorgan. Here’s their investment advice.

  6. 06 Epoch Times Business

    A Treasury buyback is when the federal government purchases its own bonds before they mature, retiring older securities and replacing them with new issuance.

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Original Articles (18)

Center Treasury Action Not a Fed Game Changer for September, Says Evercore’s Guha — Bloomberg
Center Fed’s Warsh Needs to Launch Operation Twist, Academy’s Tchir Says — Bloomberg
Center Scott Bessent Is Moving Markets Everywhere, With a Lot at Stake — Bloomberg
Center Treasury Bond Fix Could Backfire, Warns JPMorgan — Bloomberg
Center Treasury Buyback Gives Gold Another Lease of Life, UBS Says — Bloomberg
Center Bessent’s Plan at Best ‘Circuit Breaker’ for Global Bond Slump — Bloomberg
Center Aegon Sticks With Winning Steepener Bet Despite US Bond Buying — Bloomberg
Center US long-term borrowing costs ease after government steps in — BBC Business
Center Bond yields edge higher as traders digest Treasury debt buyback plan — CNBC
Center Bessent moves to curb Treasury yields, putting new pressure on Warsh's Fed — CNBC
Left 'Bessent Is a Political Actor': Treasury Move on Bond Market Seen as Midterm Damage Control — Common Dreams
Center Treasury’s bond buyback blitz may end up driving yields higher, warns JPMorgan. Here’s their investment advice. — MarketWatch
Center Why Bessent’s Treasury operations have breathed life back into the gold trade — MarketWatch
Center Want to bet on the bond rally? Check out these overlooked funds. — MarketWatch
Center Pressure on bonds abates as Treasury announces buybacks. What may come next. — MarketWatch
Center US Treasury to double buybacks of long-term government debt — Financial Times
Lean Left Why the U.S. Treasury moved to lower long-term bond yields — NPR Economy
Lean Right Long-Term US Bond Yields Fall After Treasury Bolsters Debt Buybacks — Epoch Times Business