Bessent Defends Buyback Plan, Stops Short of New Bond Measures

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent refrained from any further signals on revamping US debt management on Monday, following a report that his department could draw down some of its cash pile to fund buybacks of higher-yielding older securit…

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