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Treasury intervention highlights anxiety over US fiscal outlook

Guardian Business says Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent pledged to double purchases of the longest-dated bonds to help reduce yields, as US debt exceeded a new record.

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Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent’s efforts to calm government bond markets point to rising concern about how investors view the US fiscal position, according to Guardian Business.

The outlet says Bessent told CNBC that there is “nothing magic” about a $40tn figure and that the Treasury moved to intervene to counter soaring yields, actions that it interprets as a sign of weakness rather than confidence.

Guardian Business also links the focus on debt and bond-market stress to prior steps in which the US Treasury helped support the Japanese yen earlier this month, a move it says was widely read as signaling anxiety about whether Japan could reduce holdings of US treasuries.

In its account of last week’s intervention, the publication says Bessent promised to double the rate at which the Treasury will buy up the longest-dated bonds in an attempt to massage yields downward, while noting related analysis that Washington appears reluctant to see foreign central banks use their dollar reserves.

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