As BIDEN Battles UAE, Saudi Arabia, Questions Arise, Who Will Buy Biden’s US $31 TRILLION Debt?

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Like Biden’s nuclear Armageddon, this massive news story is getting no media coverage.Under Democrat rule, we are careening toward catastrophe. And the party of treason most likely wants the GOP to take the House in the mid-terms, so that the they can blame all the ensuing chaos on the Republicans. That way, 2024 will be in the bag.

Why questions are swirling about who will buy most of the U.S.’s $31 trillion in debt — and at what price

By: Marketwire, Oct. 12, 2022:

For the first time ever, U.S. national debt crossed above $31 trillion this month, at a time when the Federal Reserve is in retreat from buying government debt and foreign investors’ interest in it is waning.

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With the largest players out of the picture, Treasurys are now in search of another reliable group of buyers for much of that debt. There’s little doubt that the securities will eventually end up in someone’s hands, according to strategist Matthew Hornbach at Morgan Stanley. The bigger question, he says, is what price those securities will then be bought and sold at via marginal players.

The absence of major buyers for Treasurys is just another source of worry on the list of concerns plaguing the U.S. government-bond market. The $23.7 trillion Treasurys market, ordinarily the world’s deepest and most liquid fixed-income market, is in fact facing thinning liquidity — which a number of traders, academics, and bond-market gurus say could create a crisis. In addition, the Treasury market’s U.K. counterpart has experienced recent wild selloffs that have led to Bank of England interventions and raised fears of a spillover into U.S. markets.

Read: U.K. Crisis Spills Into U.S. Junk Debt and Opinion: The stock market is in trouble. That’s because the bond market is ‘very close to a crash.’

“A wide variety of actors in the economy purchase US Treasuries. Whether the buyers are commercial banks, asset managers, or US households, the Treasury securities issued by the government will be purchased by someone,” Hornbach wrote in a note Tuesday. The more relevant question for investors at large “is not who will buy the securities, but at what price?”

Falling bond prices translate into higher Treasury yields and, right now, those yields are either above or not far from 4% — levels which haven’t been seen in more than a decade. Theoretically, further declines in bond prices would push yields even higher, denting the appeal of risky assets like stocks, at a time when some market participants have put the idea of an almost 5% fed-funds rate target on the radar. Growing expectations for a 5% fed-funds rate target would likely push Treasury yields toward 5%.

Over the last 30 years or more, the single most important factor that determined the level of Treasury yields — which move in the opposite direction of prices — has been the Fed since its interest-rate policy and forward guidance drives expectations, Hornbach said.

Now that the central bank is hiking interest rates at the fastest pace in decades to contain rampant inflation, it’s also shrinking its balance sheet after putting an end to bond purchases earlier this year — all with the intent of tightening financial conditions.

Meanwhile, foreign investors — led by those in Japan and China, which paved the way for the rest of the world to attain sizable positions in Treasurys from 2001 through 2010 — have been consistently reducing their U.S. government-bond holdings since 2014, according to the Morgan Stanley strategist.

Data provided by Barclays BARC, -3.20% on Tuesday paints a negative picture overall for U.S. fixed-income markets. In sum, it showed that bond funds saw a rise in outflows during the week that ended on Oct. 5, just as foreign custody holdings of Treasurys at the Fed dropped.

On Wednesday, yields on 3-month through 1-year Treasury bills soared by more than 20 basis points each ahead of Thursday’s consumer-price index report for September, while the 30-year TMUBMUSD30Y, 3.897% climbed further above its highest level since January 2014. Dow industrials DJIA, 0.33% and the S&P 500 SPX, 0.15% were also higher in morning trading.

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Cav2108
Cav2108
1 year ago

So . . . . We SHOULDN’T take back the House in the mid-terms, because it’s a TRAP laid by democrats so they can blame everything on Republicans? Is that what you are saying? Do you really think that we should leave the House under democrat control so they can’t blame us for the diarrhea-show that they are currently running? Really?

joanofark06
joanofark06
1 year ago
Reply to  Cav2108

Are you commenting on something in the article? I don’t see anything in the article, that could relate to your comment. Show me, the reasoning of your comment, if you would, cause I’d like to clear up my confusion…

MerchantseamenD
Merchantseamen
1 year ago
Reply to  Cav2108

“Diarrhea-show” Hhahahhaaaaa….ahahahahaaa…ahahhaaa Now that is funny.

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