U.S. Treasury Triples Long-Term Debt Buybacks to $6 Billion as Yields Surge and Brent Crude Crosses $100

WASHINGTON — In an aggressive maneuver to stabilize the world’s most critical debt market, the U.S. Department of the Treasury announced on Wednesday, September 9, that it would buy back up to $6 billion in long-dated government debt. The operation, executed the following day, tripled the Treasury’s normal buyback volume and exceeded even the expanded…

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The Venezuelan Feedstock Paradox: How Gulf Coast Refineries Weaponized Heavy Crude Amid a Middle Eastern Crisis

WASHINGTON / HOUSTON — In the high-stakes theater of global energy geopolitics, few ironies match the reality currently gripping the United States Gulf Coast. While Washington politicians tout sweeping diplomatic triumphs and multi-billion-dollar resource acquisitions in South America to soothe anxious voters at the gas pump, the nation’s complex refinery network is engaged in a…

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