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  "id": 3019865,
  "title": "Treasury Cash Stockpile Is Option to Fund Buybacks, CNBC Says",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/24/treasury-cash-stockpile-is-option-to-fund-buybacks-cnbc-says",
  "topic": "finance",
  "section": "Finance & Markets",
  "published": "2026-08-24T11:47:46.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Bloomberg",
    "slug": "bloomberg",
    "url": "https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-08-24/treasury-could-use-its-cash-pile-to-fund-buybacks-cnbc-says"
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  "original_language": "en",
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  "summary": "The Treasury Department could opt to draw down some of its cash pile to fund expanded buybacks of higher-yielding, older securities, CNBC reported Monday, citing two senior Treasury officials.",
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      {
        "outlet": "Quartz",
        "title": "Treasury could tap its near-$1 trillion cash account to fund bond buybacks",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/24/treasury-could-tap-its-near-1-trillion-cash-account-to-fund-bond",
        "published": "2026-08-24T12:10:53.000Z"
      },
      {
        "outlet": "Yahoo Finance",
        "title": "Treasury may tap $1 trillion cash account for bond buybacks",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/24/treasury-may-tap-1-trillion-cash-account-for-bond-buybacks",
        "published": "2026-08-24T12:18:30.000Z"
      }
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}