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08.09.26 - 11:36
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Goldman′s Wheeler Says Volume of AI Debt May Pressure Spreads (Bloomberg)
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The sheer volume of AI-related debt issuance could pressure spreads, according to Miriam Wheeler, global head of leveraged finance at Goldman Sachs. "If you look at the last couple weeks in the market on the non-IG [investment grade] side, we have seen some spread widening, particularly in the AI space," Wheeler tells Bloomberg Television. (Source: Bloomberg)...
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07.09.26 - 19:24
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Japan Sold Almost $90 Billion In Treasuries To Fund Record Yen Intervention (ZeroHedge)
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Japan Sold Almost $90 Billion In Treasuries To Fund Record Yen Intervention
At the end of July, the only question following Japan's record $90 billion yen intervention (which worked for about two weeks before the effects faded and Bessent had to engage in more market intervention), was whether and how much Treasuries Japan had sold as part of the intervention.
The BOJ spent a record $90BN to briefly push the yen higher.
Another catastrophic intervention by the central bank which is 100bps behind in rate hikes (chart Goldman) pic.twitter.com/xOGszXSgF7
— zerohedge (@zerohedge) July 31, 2026
We now now the answers: i) yes and ii) a lot.
According to Finance Ministry reserve data released Monday, Tokyo's holdings of foreign securities fell by $87.8 billion at the end of August from a month earlier. That decline was close to the scale of Japan's recent intervention to support the yen. Analysts suggested Japan likely sold Treasuries at the short end of the maturity spectrum, Bloomberg re...
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