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🗓️ 23 April 2025
⏱️ 19 minutes
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Markets shook after US President Donald Trump announced his so-called reciprocal tariffs earlier this month. But there was one market in particular that got investors particularly worried: Treasuries. What’s usually a safe haven asset suddenly saw huge sell-offs. Trump managed to avoid further pain by pausing large chunks of his tariffs, but the sell-off prompts a discussion about significant structural flaws in the market. The FT’s US markets editor Kate Duguid explains which cracks in the US Treasuries market we can't ignore.
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For further reading:
Is the world losing faith in the almighty US dollar?
The debt-fuelled bet on US Treasuries that’s scaring regulators
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0:36.4 | In recent weeks, the news of U.S. President Donald Trump's tariffs have caused a lot of instability. |
0:44.4 | For the first few days, it seemed like maybe he was going to try to ride it out, even as markets cratered. |
0:52.3 | But then, there was one market that caused him to blink and pause many of those tariffs. |
0:59.0 | I was watching the bond market. |
1:01.0 | The bond market is very tricky. |
1:02.0 | I was watching it. |
1:03.0 | But if you look at it now, it's beautiful. |
1:07.0 | The bond market right now is beautiful. |
1:10.0 | But yeah, I saw last night where people were getting a little queasy. |
1:14.0 | What Trump's talking about here is the U.S. Treasury's market, the largest bond market in the world. |
1:19.9 | People were selling treasuries. |
1:23.0 | And that prompted a lot of fear, a lot of speculation, a lot of concern. |
1:28.5 | Everybody was trying to figure out who was selling treasuries and why they were selling them. |
1:32.8 | That's Kate Doogood, the F.T.'s U.S. markets editor. |
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