Global Bond Markets Stabilize as Investors Mull U.S. Buybacks, Iran Sanctions - WSJ

Global Bond Markets Stabilize as Investors Mull U.S. Buybacks, Iran Sanctions  WSJ

But expect them to continue, so long as government debt stays high

The Treasury Department’s plan to expand purchases of long-dated government debt is beginning to show signs of improving liquidity in the bond market without preventing yields from responding to economic conditions—even though the actual purchases will not begin for weeks.

The chorus of voices criticizing US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent’s bond buyback strategy grew Tuesday.

The US is risking a sovereign debt reckoning as fiscal profligacy meets Japan’s reawakening and record Big Tech borrowing, pushing yields – and political pressure – higher in the lead-up to midterms.

Bond markets remains unconvinced by Bessent’s plans  CNN

August 25, 2026 8:53 AM ET Billionaire investor Stanley Druckenmiller, who mentored Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent during their years working together at George Soros’ hedge fund, warned Monday that the Treasury Department’s expanded bond-buyback program amounted to an attempt to manipulate prices and could undermine

Bessent, according to Wall Street executives who deal with him regularly, is particularly worried that traders will continue to pile into a trade on long dated treasuries that will send prices lower.

Trump ally should cut budget deficit rather than try to suppress bond yields, says billionaire Stanley Druckenmiller Scott Bessent’s attempt to calm the bond markets and push down America’s cost of borrowing have attracted a rebuke from the US Treasury secretary’s former mentor. The billionaire investor Stanley Drucken

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