David Lawder
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- Sep 3, 2026
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Fed's Waller says safety premium for Treasuries is gone, pushing neutral rate higher (opens the original)
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WASHINGTON, Sept 3 (Reuters) - There is no more premium for safe, liquid U.S. government debt, pushing the neutral level of interest rates higher, Federal Reserve Governor Christopher Waller told a Reuters NEXT Newsmaker event on Thursday. Waller also told Reuters NEXT that for the United States to grow its way out of a $40 trillion debt load, structural deficits would have to be brought closer to zero percent of GDP, from this fiscal year's level of around 6%. Waller said that yields have bee
Bessent urges BOJ chief to combat weak yen with 'decisive' monetary steps (opens the original)
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ASHEVILLE, North Carolina, Sept 1 (Reuters) - U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent voiced strong support for "decisive" monetary steps to combat yen weakness in a meeting with Bank of Japan Governor Kazuo Ueda, the Treasury Department said, cementing the case for a Japanese rate hike this month. In a meeting with Ueda, Bessent also urged the BOJ to anchor inflation expectations and avoid excessive yen volatility through sound monetary policy, the Treasury Department said in a statement on Tue
US irks G20 ministers by bringing back Russia, barring journalists (opens the original)
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ASHEVILLE, North Carolina, Aug 31 (Reuters) - The United States' move to welcome Russia back to a meeting of G20 countries on Monday while denying some journalists access to the gathering dismayed some finance leaders present, deflecting from its bid to focus talks on global economic growth. The two-day meeting in Asheville, North Carolina, comes as the global economy is being buffeted by an energy shock triggered by the Iran war, faces rising tensions over China's huge goods trade surplus and
Bessent says yen moves 'pretty contained' and not disorderly (opens the original)
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ASHEVILLE, North Carolina, Aug 30 (Reuters) - U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said recent yen moves were "pretty well contained," suggesting the Japanese currency's renewed slides were not seen as the kind of disorderly moves that led to a rare joint Japan-U.S. intervention last month. The yen slid below the 160-per-dollar level on Friday, a threshold widely seen as increasing the likelihood of intervention, drawing market attention to whether the United States and Japan can step in to p
US Treasury's Bessent faces G20 diplomacy test amid tariffs, Iran war, bond turmoil (opens the original)
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ASHEVILLE, North Carolina, Aug 30 (Reuters) - U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent faces a major test of his economic diplomacy skills this week as he presses finance leaders from the G20 major economies to shrink global trade imbalances, boost growth and sever business ties to Iran, while trying to calm worries about rising U.S. debt and bond yields. After shunning the Group of 20 process last year in South Africa, Bessent is seeking to revamp it under U.S. leadership to push the Trump admini
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