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  "id": 6424327,
  "title": "Bessent dared currency traders to bet against him as bond buyback size loomed",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/09/bessent-dared-currency-traders-to-bet-against-him-as-bond-buyback",
  "topic": "finance",
  "section": "Finance & Markets",
  "published": "2026-09-09T13:10:48.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Quartz",
    "slug": "quartz",
    "url": "https://qz.com/bessent-treasury-bond-buyback-size-currency-traders-090926"
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  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "The Treasury is expected to announce Wednesday how large it will make its bond buyback operations, with analysts at Wrightson ICAP seeing $5 billion to $6 billion as a likely starting point",
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      {
        "outlet": "Wolf Street",
        "title": "10-Year to 30-Year Treasury Yields Jump after Bessent Reveals Bond Buybacks for Tomorrow’s Auction",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/09/10-year-to-30-year-treasury-yields-jump-after-bessent-reveals-bond",
        "published": "2026-09-09T16:48:36.000Z"
      },
      {
        "outlet": "Semafor",
        "title": "US bond yields spike after Bessent increases buybacks",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/09/us-bond-yields-spike-after-bessent-increases-buybacks",
        "published": "2026-09-09T22:30:56.000Z"
      }
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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."
}