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One important element of the flight from the USD has been a synchronous exit out of longer-dated US Treasury securities.

In 1971, the US Treasury Secretary told the rest of the world it had to deal with a weak dollar.

Now, Tim Geithner, US Treasury secretary, seems to feel even the word "problem" is too scary.

A US Treasury official said exchange rates would have to be part of any such rebalancing, however.

US Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner said he welcomed the greater sense of urgency being shown over Greece.

By selling their US Treasury bonds, China would have to take on riskier assets at a time when China is trying to cut its exposure to risk.

Under the company's plan, the US treasury and the United Auto Workers' union would get 89% of the company between them.

Citigroup is considering a plan in which the US Treasury Department would sell its 34% stake in the bank, The Wall Street Journal said.

And yet, as the slide in the Dow Jones and the rise in US Treasury bond prices implied, there could be real-world consequences.

The US Treasury Department is cracking down on mortgage companies failing to help borrowers at risk of foreclosure.

More importantly, China has continued to buy US Treasury bills at a steady pace to reassure the market it has not lost faith in them.

Prof Johnson says part of his role as an economist is to "float ideas" in ways Hank Paulson, US Treasury Secretary, for instance, is unable.

China holds more than $400bn in US Treasury bonds but it has been a small player in higher-risk, global asset classes.

Faced with this, Tim Geithner, US Treasury secretary, is trying to strike a conciliatory tone.

But in a world where the US Treasury secretary also used to run Goldman Sachs, such links seem a tad embarrassing at best.

Tim Geithner, US Treasury secretary, said: "A day-by-day financial transactions tax is not something we are prepared to support. "

Hank Paulson, the US Treasury secretary, said the programme would initially cost "hundreds of billions of dollars. "

US Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson said the stimulus package aimed to make more lending available to consumers.

The central bank, he said, could also buy more state bonds issued by other major economies and decrease holdings of US Treasury bills.

"The main responsibility for this imbalance lies with the US Treasury, which is printing too much money, " he said.

Now we see Hank Paulson, US Treasury secretary, trying to organise a cartel of holders of toxic securitised assets in the "superSIV" .

And yet despite the massive outgoings in foreign aid, the receiving countries hold trillions of dollars in US Treasury bonds.

At a news conference in Washington, the US Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner explained why he thought the bill was important.

His comments were backed by US Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner who said he supported a change to SDR composition.

Indeed, diving into the so-called "bubble" of owning standard US Treasury debt has been a soothing dip for investors.

Tim Geithner, US Treasury secretary, tried to calm nerves on Wednesday, saying the eurozone authorities would not risk a banking crisis.

"If I were in the US Treasury, I would be saying to the Japanese: why don't you help us in beating up on the Chinese? "

In return for such a commitment, the US Treasury secretary would desist from branding China a currency manipulator next month.

Meanwhile, in Tokyo yesterday Tim Geithner, US Treasury secretary, reiterated his belief in the importance of a strong dollar.

US Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner has said the package of proposals "would bring balance to our tax code" .

Tim Geithner, awaiting confirmation as the next US Treasury secretary, says China is manipulating its currency.

Japan has held the position of being the largest holder of US Treasury debt, since at least the early 1990s.

Thereby it is reported that US Treasury weighed the cash injection or buying the bank share as feasible solutions.

First, the plan may bring modest growth for a few years but will be followed by another, bigger crisis centred on the US treasury market.

Timothy Geithner, the US Treasury secretary, has come up with a wheeze that would allow governments to leverage their financial firepower.

All it needs to do is divert a small proportion of its military budget or sell a little of its huge stock of US Treasury Bonds.

Over time, a natural tendency to diversify from a heavy concentration in US Treasury securities may prove a headwind to a dollar recovery.

That trade might now reverse as the US Treasury made it clear that holders of agency debt would be safeguarded.

First, would be for the US Treasury to name China as a currency manipulator in its annual currency report, due out by April 15.

The spat between Standard & Poor's and the US Treasury over accounting numbers similarly misses the point.

The dollar surged to its highest level against the euro in more than seven months, while US Treasury prices rose.

This, in turn, has led to the panic purchases of US Treasury bills shown in the chart.

First, the US Treasury Department yesterday made a decision not to name China as a "currency manipulator" .

The revised terms under negotiation had been backed by some of Prudential's biggest investors as well as Mr Benmoshe and the US Treasury.

The expected negative real-policy rate will influence much of the US Treasury curve as well.

US Treasury Undersecretary David McCormack said the plan likely will have a positive effect.

Maybe that will improve when Tim Geithner, US Treasury secretary, announces the details of his bank rescue plan this week.

For most of his time in Beijing, the US Treasury secretary was on the defensive, justifying US policies rather than berating those of China.

No sooner had these figures emerged than the US Treasury published its own estimate of the costs of its bail-out operations.

Timothy Adams is a former US Treasury undersecretary for international affairs and is managing director of the Lindsey Group.

Hank Paulson, the US Treasury Secretary, told reporters in Ghana, "a strong dollar is in our nation's interest" .

Fannie Mae built up a balance sheet whose overall size was large even by the standards of the US economy and US Treasury.

The writer is chairman and chief executive of Evercore Partners and was deputy US Treasury secretary under President Bill Clinton.

But when, a few hours later, he saw the proposals from Tim Geithner, US Treasury secretary, Mr Clark had second thoughts.

Second, if you run into Mr Mizoguchi in the US Treasury headquarters in Washington, stop for a moment and thank him.

Savers take note: Your money-market fund is no longer insured by the US Treasury.

The US administration will wait until the public-private partnership, proposed by Tim Geithner, the US Treasury secretary, takes off.

The US Treasury should not let banks out of the Tarp until they have enough capital for the desired level of lending.

US Treasury yields are also higher, though not as much. Once mortgage debt buying slows next year, US long-term yields may rise too.

In a speech this week, Hank Paulson, US Treasury secretary, insisted on the right of individual governments to take unilateral steps.

Tim Geithner, US Treasury secretary, said late on Tuesday that it was "China's choice" whether to revalue the renminbi.

This has put the Fed and the US Treasury into a nearly impossible position.

That was the auction the US Treasury was hoping to hold until it abruptly changed its plans in November.

The US Treasury did not negotiate with the first 10 banks to receive Tarp capital.

Tim Geithner, US Treasury secretary, said: "We welcome China's decision to increase the flexibility of its exchange rate. "

Last week's talks between Hank Paulson, the US Treasury secretary, and a Chinese delegation produced movement, but not much progress.

Whether the US Treasury will relent and return to an auction remains to be seen.

That support was reinforced at the weekend when Hank Paulson, US Treasury secretary, offered emergency funding for the companies.

US Treasury Secretary John Snow applauded the shift as a significant contribution to global financial stability.

China, the biggest foreign holder of US Treasury bonds, has become increasingly vocal in its fears on the value of its dollar assets.

But, given the impasse over the US Treasury's borrowing limit, not everyone is so upbeat on the dollar.

"Frankly they haven't let the currency move very much so far, " said Tim Geithner, US Treasury secretary, on Bloomberg Television this week.

The US Treasury department is to release a report shortly on currency manipulation by US trading partners.

Those Beijing students who laughed at US Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner may not enjoy the last laugh.

That meant taking greater risks once more and selling the secure US Treasury bonds bought during the panic.

"We need to dynamite this thing, " the US Treasury secretary said of his plan to end the freeze in global credit markets.

Moreover, those dollars need to be invested in the safest instruments possible, namely US Treasury bills, notes and bonds.

The US Treasury releases the figures on this - here they are in a more useable form.

However, the entire plan began to crumble after 2006 when the Chinese began to stop buying US Treasury certificates.

Gold, US treasury short-term bond and USD are the only few that shine in such gloomy and doomsdays week.

So, international capital will eventually finance US's public debts and thereby sustaining the low yield of the US Treasury bonds.

Britain's most senior civil servant claimed it was hard to find anyone to speak to at the US Treasury.

Six months ago, Tim Geithner, US Treasury secretary, promised "new rules of the game" for the financial system.

As stocks plunged, the US treasury wasted little time in getting its contentious $700bn bail-out of the banking industry under way.

Meanwhile, Tim Geithner, US Treasury secretary, warned against prematurely scaling back efforts to support the global economy.

On Monday, US Treasury data showed that China had replaced Japan to become the top holder of US treasury debt in September.

I would under-weigh bonds as US rate reduction cycle is at an end together with their current low yield especially on US treasury.

The US Treasury has been pursuing quiet diplomacy with Beijing to allow the renminbi to rise, but lawmakers said they were losing patience.

Many are still happily holding on to US dollar assets and US Treasury securities are still in great demand.

This, to his credit, Hank Paulson, the US Treasury secretary, has recognised.

To maintain our stock of hard currency, the US Treasury creates hundreds of billions of dollars worth of new bills and coins each year.

US Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner has urged Asia-Pacific countries to increase efforts to restore growth to the global economy.

The US treasury's mistake in allowing Lehman Brothers to go bust sparked the current crisis of banking liquidity.

During World War Two Friedman not only worked for the US Treasury on tax, but had a spell in the statistical war research group at Columbia.

Institutions are stepping up lobbying ahead of guidance from the US Treasury on implementation of the law.

This month, Tim Geithner, US Treasury secretary, and President Barack Obama have toned down the talk.

For one, China is an important US creditor and wants to make sure the US Treasury remains good for its debts.

China financed the US current account deficit by recycling its own surplus into US Treasury bonds.

He was awarded the US Treasury Silver Medal and the Legion of Honor by the President of France.

American quantitative easing has depressed US Treasury yields, forcing return-seeking capital abroad.

Positive news on home prices and further market-friendly comments from Tim Geithner, US Treasury secretary, further helped the mood.

Buying into Blackstone is afirst step to diversifying those reserves out of US Treasury bonds.

The US Treasury said yesterday that it would consider all submissions.

Tim Geithner, US Treasury secretary, will travel to Europe again this week to cajole leaders into striking a confidence-boosting deal.

The US Treasury is pondering an exemption but some bank regulators insist the statute be implemented as it is.

Maybe investors simply disagreed with S& P and viewed US Treasury securities as still being the asset with the lowest credit risk.

It has recently retained John Snow, former US Treasury secretary, to advise its board.

Seventy-five years later, the US Treasury cannot ignore the fact that China has become its largest creditor.

The US Treasury market, meanwhile, suggests a more sober interpretation of events.

Hank Paulson, US Treasury secretary, recently led the largest American government delegation ever to visit China.

The US Treasury was granted powers late last month to extend its credit lines to Fannie and Freddie and invest in their debt and equity.

Haruhiko Kuroda, ADB president, plans to meet Tim Geithner, US Treasury secretary, tomorrow to lobby for the capital increase.

Tim Geithner, US Treasury secretary, will now unveil the new troubled asset relief programme guidelines tomorrow.

The greater the uncertainty attached to all other cash flows, the greater the demand for US Treasury securities.

Still, a deep hole must be filled, probably with sovereign US Treasury credits.

Paulson's testimony, which is available on the US Treasury website, included an appeal for a "bipartisan" consensus.

Having been burned by the credit crunch, many have opted for the safe haven of US Treasury bills.

It would compel the US Treasury to report on misaligned currencies (meaning the renminbi).

The US Treasury wants to regulate both derivatives dealers and derivatives markets themselves.

These so-called "repo fails" prompted the US Treasury yesterday to re-open various Treasury issues and sell more debt yesterday.

The default ratio on prime mortgages is already well above the US treasury's stress test limit set for the banks.

Hank Paulson, US treasury secretary, told Congress on Wednesday that he was watching "very, very closely" .

As China invests in a broader range of financial instruments, it will buy fewer US Treasury bonds.

But even this would do nothing more than compelling the US Treasury secretary to negotiate with the Chinese, which he is doing anyway.

But when these gorgeous, oversized US Gold Certificates were outlawed in 1933, millions were recalled and destroyed by the US Treasury.

Billed as China's "Davos" , the annual forum came on the heels of Thursday's trip to Beijing by Tim Geithner, US Treasury secretary.

General Motors, and its majority owner the US Treasury, are largely losers.

The currency issue was raised again by Hank Paulson, US Treasury secretary, on a visit to Beijing last week.

The US dollar assets backing the Monetary Base are managed in the most liquid form, in US dollar call deposits and US Treasury securities.

Tim Geithner, the US Treasury secretary, hailed "concrete, tangible signs of progress on both sides" .

Asian bond returns, taken in conjunction with their volatility, compare unfavourably with their US Treasury counterparts, market by market.

In the meantime, foreign central banks are eschewing government agency debt in favour of US Treasury paper.

US Treasury yields currently indicate no stress, and yields have fallen to new lows as economic growth has declined.

Mr Lee acknowledged that Seoul, which has the sixth-biggest foreign currency reserves, was anxious about its US Treasury holdings.

Reordering the dollar is a move that the US Treasury refuses publicly to consider; in private, it is another story.

Peripheral European yields spiked, but US Treasury and German bund yields declined further.

The verbal sabre rattling by US Treasury Secretary Geithner is a threat to the open global trading system.

Should traders and investors short the US Treasury market? The bearish case is straightforward.

Over half of the new issues of US Treasury securities are now taken up by Asian economies.

China reduced its holdings of US government debt by the largest margin in nearly nine years in June, according to data from the US Treasury.

And the latest figures from the U. S. Treasury show that China continues to buy US Treasury bills and bonds on a massive scale.

The other candidate was said to be Robert Kimmitt, deputy US Treasury secretary.

That error was what had brought the humiliating dictation by IMF officials operating under the thumb of the US Treasury.

At the same time, the US Treasury said it would inject $20bn into Bank of America and would backstop losses on $118bn of its assets.

Judged by its rejection of the plan put forward by Hank Paulson, US Treasury secretary, Congress believes it is time to risk another one.

Tim Geithner, US Treasury secretary, said that "the financial system is starting to heal" .

So far this calendar year, the reported US Treasury budget deficit is annualised at US$1, 300bn.

And the US Treasury bonds remain the most liquid investment product in the market, given China's huge foreign exchange reserves.

China may agonise about the impact of a further devaluation of the dollar on its $2, 000bn of US Treasury bills.

After eight years in which the US Treasury has often either been criticised or simply ignored, he has a chance to restore its credibility.

US Treasury markets capitalized on the equity plunge, surging during the afternoon session .

Unofficially, Tim Geithner, the US Treasury secretary, has a maximum leverage ratio in mind.

The US Treasury market occupies the centre of the global financial system.

Yet when China reduces its current account surplus (and diversifies from dollar assets) the effect will be felt in US Treasury markets.

But one useful source on the regulatory dimension is the self- assessment produced by the US Treasury in March 2008.

The troubled asset relief programme made $750bn of US Treasury funds available to American companies.

And, US Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson is leading a high-level Washington delegation to China later this month.

Chinese Vice-Premier Wang Qishan and US Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson will co-chair the 4th China-US Strategic Economic Dialogue.

"I think this is a good result but a terrible process, " Tim Geithner, US Treasury secretary, told ABC television on Tuesday.

The good assets were not gold but mainly the still highly-liquid US treasury bonds in the category of "securities held outright. "

What seems certain, however, is that China can no longer purchase more American debt to finance the US Treasury (and consequently the Fed).

It means the US Treasury can begin selling part of the stake it took after a $50bn bailout of the carmaker.

Hank Paulson, the US Treasury secretary, is to visit Beijing this week.

They will be led by Hank Paulson, US Treasury Secretary and Wu Yi, China's vice-premier responsible for trade and foreign investment policy.

US Treasury debt prices were lower on fears that Japanese insurers may need to sell bonds to pay for damages.

The US Treasury is conducting "stress tests" of banks, to boost investor confidence.

As central banks bought up US treasury bonds, they drove up their price and drove down their yields.

Mr Paulson is now US Treasury secretary.

The US needs China to hold the US Treasury and agency debt it owns and to keep buying new US debt.

Events have since forced the US Treasury secretary to look to home.

Officially, China remains committed to the US Treasury market.

Q: So what will that mean to China, given that China is the biggest holder of US Treasury bonds?

Nearly one-third of marketable US Treasury debt is concentrated in Treasury bills.

Official silence on the dollar's woes extends to Hank Paulson, US Treasury secretary.

How symbolic yesterday that Chinese astronauts take a spacewalk while the US Treasury Secretary is on his knees.

The Chinese premier took a studiously neutral view on future purchases of US Treasury bills this year.

There were solid returns available just by parking money in safe-as-houses US Treasury bonds.

But, starting in mid-January 2009, without further investments from the US Treasury, the improvement has stalled.

The US Treasury is to provide $20bn of funds from the $700bn troubled asset relief program to back the new facility.

He advised themto improve the regulatory regime - something he had counselled Hank Paulson and other US Treasury officials on for months.

Earlier this week, just prior to US Treasury secretary Hank Paulson's arrival in China, the renminbi hit a fresh high against the dollar.

Sinking confidence in US assets has been limited to the private sector and has not yet spread to US Treasury bonds.

Martin Wolf: Jagdish is right: too many US Treasury secretaries think they are secretary for Wall Street.

It is firmly in the consensus of the US Treasury, major investors and rating agencies.

People are unwilling to lend to almost anybody except for the US Treasury.

US Treasury bonds are financed by a federal fiscal policy.

Yesterday, some short-term US Treasury bills were quoted near or below zero per cent.

Q: US Treasury Secretary Geithner will testify later today in the Congress.

Nor should it have surprised so many that demand for US Treasury securities rose and their yields fell.

When China buys US Treasury bills, who depends on whom?

In the first half of this year the Chinese purchased some $225 billion of US Treasury bonds and paper from other US government agencies.

It cannot be to preserve GM jobs, because the US Treasury has signalled GM must slim to get the cash.

The PMI numbers were the last straw, pushing the 10-year US Treasury yield below 3 per cent for the first time since December.

The Federal Reserve and US treasury yesterday launched a sister to the Tarp called the term asset-backed loans facility, or Talf.

Recent proposals from the US Treasury fall partly into this category.

The US Treasury released its plan for purchasing $1 trillion of toxic assets from the troubled banks.

The 10-year US Treasury yield was flat at 3. 11 per cent as investors shrugged off news of a rise in initial jobless claims last week.

Liquidity in the US Treasury market is superior to eurozone bond markets.

But in 2001 she took a leave of absence from the school to work in the Office of Quantitative Policy Analysis at the US Treasury.

AIG, the New York Federal Reserve and the US Treasury declined to comment.

Subsequently the US Treasury sanctioned five IRISL front companies and 27 vessels, and also identified 71 renamed IRISL vessels.

Hank Paulson, the US Treasury secretary, told reporters the all G7 members agreed that China must act.

The troublesome benchmark is the sticky yield on the inflation-sensitive 10-year US Treasury.

A special law enforcement agent of the us treasury.

China holds just 8% of outstanding US Treasury debt; American individuals and institutions hold 69%.

It is too soon to evaluate the US Treasury's most recent public-private initiatives.

Now the US Treasury secretary has decided that in his dealings with China, he will be the good cop.

The FTSE All-World equity index is up 0. 6 per cent, while US Treasury yields are firmer as investors tweak monetary policy expectations.

US Treasury Secretary Holds Talks with Chines.

The US treasury secretary talks about permanent action and we at our [EU summit] were quite alarmed by that.

China is the single biggest holder of US Treasury debt.

But an 8 percent return is almost twice what most nations get with their huge stocks of surplus US dollars invested in US Treasury bills.

If, instead, I give you $49, this is a promise made by the US Treasury, a more dependable debtor.

Bank of America received an initial $25bn from the US Treasury in September.

The US Treasury initially designed the Tarp to buy bad assets from the banks, but reversed itself and only made equity investments.

The US Treasury declined to comment on the latest call.

Another event risk today comes from the US Treasury.

Since reaching the limit on May 16, the US Treasury has relied on accounting maneuvers to prevent a federal default.

Once the US Treasury market stabilizes we can liquidate more of our holdings of Treasuries.

The return on a portfolio over and above a 'risk-free' rate (such as the yield on US Treasury-bills).

The US Treasury said net foreign purchases of long-term securities was $68. 6bn in September after purchases of $58bn in August.

Lehman is entering bankruptcy because the US Treasury refused to subsidise a rescue.

But after he ran second to Hank Paulson for the job of US Treasury secretary in 2006, he jumped ship to Goldman Sachs.

The US Treasury is seeking to extend the life of its debt in order to lessen any future refinancing problems.

Japan edges China as top US Treasury holder.

However, judging from a consultation exercise now being organised by the US Treasury, there are some interesting ideas floating around.

The 2-year US Treasury note fell to just 16 basis points, well below the previous record low achieved earlier this week of 23 basis points.

A flight to safety saw the yield on the two-year US Treasury bill fall 38 basis points.

According to analysis from JP Morgan, the downgrading means interest rates for US treasury bonds could increase by 60 to 70 basis points.

Mr Bond estimates current central bank bond buying has cut 10-year US Treasury yields by between 50 and 100 basis points.

The US Treasury tried and failed to change China's currency policy in the 1930s.

That is a serious concern to governments like China that invest heavily in US Treasury bonds and other dollar assets.

GM's scheme also assumes another $11. 6bn in cash from the US Treasury.

The yield of the three-months US Treasury fell to a 50-year low of 0. 56 per cent on Wednesday.

US Treasury yields have fallen from 16 per cent to 3 per cent over that period.

Q: How do you comment on US Treasury Secretary Geithner's remarks yesterday about the RMB exchange rate?

Meanwhile, the US Treasury holds 261. 5m fine troy ounces of gold.

As 10 am this morning, the US Treasury Department has issued a full recall of all 776 billion pieces of US currency in circulation .

US Treasury bills are tendered in this way.

And we will need substantial guarantees from the US Treasury.

US Treasury debt prices rose, with the yield on the 10-year note falling 23 basis points to 2. 67 per cent.

Bonds from less risky companies with investment grade ratings were up 1. 9 per cent, with 10-year US Treasury debt down by 0. 2 per cent.

He served in the US Treasury from 1997 to 2001.

The US Treasury now holds 8. 6 per cent and Canada 2. 2 per cent.

The US Treasury unveiled a record $75bn in debt sales yesterday, slated for next week.

The yield on the 10-year US Treasury fell 5. 8bp to 3. 37 per cent.

Barclays Capital's US Treasury index is up 7. 3 per cent, rebounding from a loss of 3. 6 per cent in 2009.

Q: Under Secretary Cohen of the US Treasury Department visited Hong Kong and Beijing this week.

The writer is chairman of Evercore Partners and was deputy US Treasury secretary under President Bill Clinton

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