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đšBREAKING: US Treasury Secretary Bessent is asking the Fed to help Japan raise dollars without selling US Treasuries.
Japan holds around $1.1 trillion in US Treasuries.
When it defends the yen, it needs dollars, and most of its reserves are sitting in those bonds rather than in cash.
Once the cash runs out, the only way to keep intervening is to start selling Treasuries.
That selling would push US bond prices down and yields up. The 10-year already went above 4.7% last week, and Bessent has said he watches that number closely.
The FIMA Repo Facility avoids it.
Japan pledges its Treasuries to the Fed, borrows dollars against them, then returns the dollars later and gets the bonds back.
The bonds never reach the open market, so yields are not affected.
The problem is size.
The facility is capped at $60 billion a day, and Japan spent an estimated $60 to $80 billion in a single week.
That is why Bessent wants it expanded.
This is also why he sold euros instead of dollars on Friday.
But it is not his decision. Expanding FIMA needs a vote from the Federal Open Market Committee, and the Fed has declined to comment.
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đšBREAKING: US Treasury Secretary Bessent is asking the Fed to help Japan raise dollars without selling US Treasuries.
Japan holds around $1.1 trillion in US Treasuries.
When it defends the yen, it needs dollars, and most of its reserves are sitting in those bonds rather than in cash.
Once the cash runs out, the only way to keep intervening is to start selling Treasuries.
That selling would push US bond prices down and yields up. The 10-year already went above 4.7% last week, and Bessent has said he watches that number closely.
The FIMA Repo Facility avoids it.
Japan pledges its Treasuries to the Fed, borrows dollars against them, then returns the dollars later and gets the bonds back.
The bonds never reach the open market, so yields are not affected.
The problem is size.
The facility is capped at $60 billion a day, and Japan spent an estimated $60 to $80 billion in a single week.
That is why Bessent wants it expanded.
This is also why he sold euros instead of dollars on Friday.
But it is not his decision. Expanding FIMA needs a vote from the Federal Open Market Committee, and the Fed has declined to comment.
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