US Fed ready to expand bond buyingBen Potter
China now has direct access to the US Department of the Treasury to buy US government bonds, though "the buying amount is not significant," a source close to the central bank told the Global Times yesterday. China can now bypass Wall Street when buying US government debts, and it is the ...
aLet beauty grapes leave you a good memory Let beauty grapes leave you a good memory[translate] aSeriously, China has lent $1.2 trillion to the US government by buying US treasury bonds. 严重,中国借了$1.2兆到美国政府通过买美国证券。[translate]...
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Fed Chair Janet Yellen told lawmakers on Thursday that the cold weather had played a role in the weakening data. She said, however, that it would take a “significant change” to the economy’s prospects for the Fed to suspend its plans to wind down its bond buying. ...
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On January 31, the national debt quietly eclipsed $30 trillion. The US government has run up debt at breakneck speed after raising the debt ceiling. The national debt broke through $29 trillion on Dec. 16. It took just 46 days for Uncle Sam to add anothe
The government’s average interest rate on new borrowing last year fell below 1 percent. For short-term i.o.u.’s like one-month Treasury bills, its average rate was only sixteen-hundredths of a percent. “All of the auction results have been solid,” said Matthew Rutherford, the Treasury...
Investors anticipate that US government bond losses will ease, given the magnitude of the moves so far and the relative attractiveness now to foreign buyers seeking out higher-yielding haven assets. But any near-term reprieve is likely to give way to further selling, they warn, especially if th...
Investors’ ability to trade US government debt has deteriorated to its lowest point since the ructions of March 2020, deepening worries about the world’s most important bond market as the Federal Reserve tightens monetary policy. Liquidity, or the ease of buying and selling, in US government ...