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Bessent Brings a Pea Shooter to a Trillion-Dollar Bond Market

U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent's plan to suppress long-term borrowing costs through larger-scale Treasury buybacks is facing an unforgiving test from the market. The Treasury Department announced Wednesday it wou…

Gold Faces a Critical $4,400 Test as Treasury Yields Surge

Precious metals are entering the final stretch of 2026 at a crossroads. After a year defined by record-breaking rallies and punishing reversals, both gold and silver now sit near technical levels that could determine wh…

The Fed May Hike, But This Is Not 2022

Central banks are flirting with rate hikes, and markets have gone crazy. Memories of the 2022 inflation battle are clearly still fresh. Yet talking about rate rises is one thing, delivering them is quite another, and th…

Germany: Profit squeeze tempers price risks – ING

ING economists Carsten Brzeski and Franziska Biehl argue that while German inflation is set to rise above 3% and stay elevated into year-end, a repeat of 2022’s double-digit surge is unlikely.

Bitcoin hugs support below key MAs as bears take control: Live

$NVDA: Multi-Year Channel Ceiling Test — Watching for Rejection NVIDIA ( NASDAQ:NVDA ) is testing the upper boundary of its multi-year ascending parallel channel on the weekly timeframe, presenting a primary macro infle…

Bond Market Rejects Bessent’s Buyback and Sends Yields Higher

TL;DR: The US 10-year Treasury yield broke above 4.81% to a three-year high near 4.85%, yet the Dollar Index is sitting near support instead of rallying — a divergence that suggests markets increasingly care about wheth…

Gold bulls defy US yield spike as Treasury buyback nears

Gold (XAU/USD) rises over 1% on Wednesday, even as the US Dollar (USD) trims some of its earlier losses, after the US Treasury Department announced a bond buyback for the September 10 auction of 10- and 20-year instrume…

SOL Price Faces $50 Risk as SkyAI Board Fight Escalates

The SOL price has enjoyed a strong recovery, but a corporate treasury dispute could complicate the rally. SkyAI, formerly Sharps Technology, holds approximately 2.08 million SOL worth roughly $207 million, making it one…

Forex Today: Attention shifts to the ECB and US PPI

The US Dollar (USD) navigated a bearish range on Wednesday, gathering some pace soon after the US Treasury announced a buyback of up to $6 billion in 10- to 20-year T-bonds.