Theborrowinglimitliftdoes not lead to increase in spending; rather, it allows the Treasury to pay expenditures Congress has previously approved, he said. "If investors should become unwilling to loan the United States money, the United States could face an immediate cash shortfall," Lew said. In...
The US gross national debt – the sum of all Treasury securities outstanding – passed another illustriousmilestone, $23.01 trillion, the US Treasury department disclosed on Friday. And it got there at lightning speed just eight months after having passed the illustrious milestone of $22 trillion o...
TheTED spread, which measures the difference between interest rates on interbank loans and U.S. government Treasury bills, turned negative for the first time ever on Wednesday, indicating that investors are more willing to buy bank debt over U.S. Treasurys. (Read more:Debt default damage alrea...
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US Treasury total public debt outstanding and US debt limit Source: Bloomberg, Standard Chartered What is the likely path from here on? Our base case remains that the US is likely to avoid a technical default, though it is quite likely that the negotiations will go down to the wire before...
Until 1917, the Treasury had to seek the approval of Congress for every bond auction. Since then, the debt-raising capability of the Treasury has been limited by a debt ceiling that is set by Congress. The debt ceiling covers all US government debt, including intragovernmental holdings. The ...
This year, investors have been fighting for a shrinking Treasury pool. According to the Ministry of finance, as of the end of September, the scale of the outstanding short-term treasury bonds fell to $1 trillion and 360 billion, which was $1 trillion and 457 billion at the end of 2014,...
Federal budget deficitshave widened in the last few years amid the rise in interest rates, which increases the net interest costs incurred by servicing the outstanding debt. Mandatory spending programs including Social Security and Medicare have exacerbated that trend, with the safety net programs faci...
The US Treasury bond market has a total of US $9 trillion and 300 billion outstanding, which is second only to the largest Japanese bond market in the world, with a size of US $9 trillion and 700 billion. 90% of Japan's national debt is different from domestic investors. About half ...
The total public debt outstanding reached $31.1 trillion on Monday, including $24.3 trillion in debt held by the public and $6.8 trillion in intergovernmental holdings, said the US Treasury Department's daily treasury statement released Tuesday. ...