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By Dan Saada
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The $6 Billion Number That Disappointed Everyone. Before the announcement, market chatter had been running hot.
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Gold and Bitcoin Sit Still While Bonds Bleed. If the buyback was supposed to signal some kind of policy shift — or at least rattle the…
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The Treasury came in big Wednesday. A $6 billion bond buyback — the largest in years — and the market basically shrugged. Yields didn't fall. They went up.
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The plan was pretty straightforward on paper: buy back older, hard-to-trade bonds using cash, pull some of that illiquid debt off the table, and hopefully ease pressure on…
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Before the announcement, market chatter had been running hot. Some traders were whispering $8 billion. Others said maybe $10 billion.
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It's kind of a classic setup. Build the anticipation, miss the number, watch the trade reverse.
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The buyback window was set to close at 2 p.m. ET on Thursday, after a 20-minute buying period. Whether that final stretch would change the picture at all remained unclear.
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If the buyback was supposed to signal some kind of policy shift — or at least rattle the safe-haven trade — it didn't. Gold sat near $4,407 an ounce.
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That's worth sitting with for a second. In a world where bond yields are spiking and the 30-year is north of 5.3%, you'd expect some rotation into hard assets.
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Long-term bonds have had a brutal run. Some analysts have called it the worst decade for the asset class since 1803, which is a wild stat to say out loud but seems to track with…
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The comparison to corporate share buybacks keeps coming up in analyst circles, and it's not totally wrong. Companies buy back stock to signal confidence and support prices.
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Druckenmiller's earlier skepticism about these kinds of interventions wasn't abstract. It came from watching governments try to jawbone or buy their way out of market pressure…
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The 20-minute buying window closing Thursday afternoon will give markets one more moment to react.
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