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The US Treasury secretary’s pledge to expand a bond buyback program in order to lower borrowing costs did little to quell market unease.

The dollar slipped on Friday and was set to end a bumpy week lower, as investors questioned whether the U.S. Treasury’s efforts to calm the bond markets might end up undermining confidence in the currency.

Dollar wobbles as Treasury's bond market buybacks raise fresh concerns  Reuters

Aug 21 : The dollar slipped on Friday and was set to end a bumpy week lower, as investors questioned whether the U.S. Treasury's efforts to calm the bond markets might end up undermining confidence in the currency.Those concerns pushed the euro up 0.13 per cent to $1.1694, on course for its fourth consecutive weekly ga

The Dow closed down over 700 points on Thursday amid rising national debt and fears over bond market volatility. Jessica Inskip, director of investor research at Stockbrokers.com, joins CBS News to discuss.

The market shrugged off the Treasury Department’s attempt to lower long-term bond yields, raising the question of what the Trump administration might do next. Yields on 30-year Treasury securities have recently pushed to levels not seen in some two decades, a sign that investors might be growing increasingly concerned

The bond market swings back to worries and knocks US stocks lower  AP News

The staggering debt figure only deepened concerns among traders about the deteriorating state of public finances in the world's biggest economy.

Lawmakers are sounding the alarm over the nation’s $40 trillion debt, lamenting Congress’s inability to meaningfully confront a problem that has grown increasingly difficult to ignore. Both parties have spent years trying to tackle the rising debt. Republicans have frequently pointed to federal spending and entitlement

The relief that swept the bond market just a day earlier disappeared as oil prices, worries about high inflation and the U.S. government’s debt kept rising

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent’s plan to calm markets is being short-circuited.

Interest rates rebounded Thursday despite efforts by Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent to put a lid on longer-term borrowing costs

Higher yields in the bond market and a drop for Walmart drag US stocks lower  Toronto Star

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“Anything that happens within a 24-hour period is noise,” US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent tells reporters, responding to a question about the bond market erasing gains since the Trump administration’s decision to increase buybacks of longer-dated bonds. (Source: Bloomberg)

Bond yields jumped Thursday, erasing the declines stemming from of the Treasury Department’s unusual intervention in the debt market a day earlier.

As the Fed’s minutes point toward possible rate hikes, Treasury expanded long-bond buybacks after 10-year yields topped 4.7%.

U.S. Debt Soars and Scott Bessent Steps in as America’s Bond Trader in Chief  WSJ

The US National Debt Grows To $40 Trillion Under Trump, Who Promised To Cut Waste  HuffPost