Treasury Announces Largest Buyback Operation Amid Rising Treasury Yields

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Treasury Announces Largest Buyback Operation Amid Rising Treasury Yields
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  1. According to the statement, "this increase in buyback operation sizes reflects Treasury’s desire to provide greater liquidity support in longer-dated nominal sectors where there is consistent strong sponsorship from market participants, as evidenced by the significant volume of high-quality offers Treasury routinely receives in longer-dated buyback operations."

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    Epoch Times Business

    Increasing buyback operation sizes indicate the Treasury’s commitment to offer more liquidity support amid consistent and robust demand from investors, “as evidenced by the significant volume of high-quality offers Treasury routinely receives in longer-dated buyback operations,” the department said in an Aug. 19 statement.

    Common Dreams

    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."

    CNBC

    Treasury buybacks are formally aimed at improving market liquidity for some less-traded instruments, in other words, ensuring that there are enough buyers and sellers in a given market to establish reliable prices. In this case, Treasury aimed to take longer-term maturities, of 10 to 30 years, off the market.

    Washington Times Business

    But Treasury yields fell in the morning after the U.S. Treasury Department said it will at least double the size of its planned purchases of longer-term Treasurys from Sept. 9 through Nov. 4. The department said it’s doing so “to provide greater liquidity support in longer-dated nominal sectors where there is consistent strong sponsorship from market participants.”

  2. 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.

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    Financial Times

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

    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.

    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.

    Bloomberg

    ‘The Treasury Is Watching’: Bessent’s Buybacks Jolt Bond Market A surprise US Treasury announcement on Wednesday is the most concrete evidence yet that the recent selloff in long-dated debt is concerning to Secretary Scott Bessent.

    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.

  3. 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.

  4. Since the outbreak of the Iran war, the 10-year yield has risen by nearly 70 basis points, topping out recently at 4.74% and pushing up 30-year mortgage rates to around 6.75%. The 10-year yield fell as low as 4.63% after news broke of the Treasury buybacks and finished the day at 4.65%.

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    Washington Times Business

    After the Treasury department’s announcement, the yield on the 10-year Treasury sank to 4.64% from 4.71% late Tuesday, which is a notable move for the bond market. It, though, remains well above its 3.97% level from before the war with Iran sent oil prices and worries about inflation much higher.

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

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    Epoch Times Business

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

  6. 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.

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    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.

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  1. 01 ZeroHedge

    Over the past several years, one of the more amusing debates gripping the market's Fed-watchers was whether the Fed's treasury buyback auctions were a form of soft QE, with this website consistently arguing that - contrary to what washed out ex-Bridgewater traders with a newsletter to sell may tell you - Treasury buybacks were just that, to wit:

  2. 02 Bloomberg

    Gold Holds Near $4,500 as US Treasury Buyback Sends Yields Lower Gold held the biggest gain in six months after the Treasury Department made a surprise move to rein in long-term borrowing costs.

  3. 03 CNBC

    But doing so risks accelerating inflation while making the cost of financing the $32.2 trillion in debt held by the public more sensitive to potential interest-rate increases, bond traders and economists said. And it puts pressure on the independent Fed to back administration policies.

  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

    Brett Arends's ROI Opinion: Want to bet on the bond rally? Check out these overlooked funds.

  6. 06 Washington Times Business

    NEW YORK — U.S. stocks are ticking higher Wednesday after the U.S. Treasury Department said it will buy more U.S. government bonds in a move that eased pressure on financial markets worldwide. Strong profit reports for the spring from Estee Lauder, Target and other U.S. companies are also helping to support the stock market.

  7. 07 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 (16)

Lean Right Here Comes QE Lite: Yields, Dollar Tumble, Gold Spikes After Treasury Unespectedly Doubles Size Of Long-End Treasury Buybacks — ZeroHedge
Center US Treasury to double buybacks of long-term government debt — Financial Times
Center Gold Holds Near $4,500 as US Treasury Buyback Sends Yields Lower — Bloomberg
Center Behind the Bond Market Rollercoaster and Bessent’s Treasury Intervention — Bloomberg
Center Bets on Long-Bond ETF Spiked a Day Before US Announced Buyback — Bloomberg
Center Treasury Bond Buybacks Evoke Memory of Fed’s ‘Operation Twist’ — Bloomberg
Center Treasury’s Potentially Limitless Buybacks Cloud T-Bill Outlook — Bloomberg
Center ‘The Treasury Is Watching’: Bessent’s Buybacks Jolt Bond Market — Bloomberg
Center Bessent moves to curb Treasury yields, putting new pressure on Warsh's Fed — CNBC
Center Cramer on Treasury buying: People want to preserve the stock rally ‘in the worst way’ — CNBC
Left 'Bessent Is a Political Actor': Treasury Move on Bond Market Seen as Midterm Damage Control — Common Dreams
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
Lean Right U.S. stocks look to halt their 3-day slide as pressure from the bond market eases — Washington Times Business
Lean Right Long-Term US Bond Yields Fall After Treasury Bolsters Debt Buybacks — Epoch Times Business
Lean Right Why Bessent Is Playing With The Treasury Market — RealClearMarkets