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TLDR Trump administration aims to lower 10-year Treasury yield through inflation control and reduced fiscal spending, with Treasury Secretary Bessent focusing on energy supply management The plan involves controlling inflation [...]

What's happened? On January 26th Argentina's economy minister, Luis Caputo, announced that the government would remove all measures related to fiscal matters from its huge omnibus reform bill. The decision [...]

Lack of fiscal discipline could cause buyers to boycott US debt, Standard Chartered CEO Bill Winters said. If lenders ditch US debt, yields will likely become inconsistent with Fed policy, [...]

Costa Rica's EFF will continue to support the government's efforts to reduce the non-financial public-sector (NFPS) deficit, which has narrowed from a pre-pandemic average of 5.7% of GDP in 2016-19 [...]

The Organic Budget Law was adopted in September 2022, establishing fiscal rules and an independent fiscal council, aimed at strengthening the country's medium-term fiscal framework. We expect the fiscal deficit [...]

Costa Rica's EFF will continue to support the government's efforts to reduce the non-financial public-sector deficit, which has narrowed from a pre-pandemic average of 5.7% of GDP in 2016-19 to [...]

The US government is more likely than not to shutdown by the end of the month, Goldman Sachs warned. But stocks could rebound quickly from any ensuing volatility, stock market [...]

The Treasury Department may issue $1.6 trillion in bills over the full year, Deutsche Bank said. That's as it looks to rebuild its cash balance following the debt ceiling crisis. [...]

Lauren Boebert missed the vote to raise the debt ceiling after criticizing the deal for weeks. The House passed the bill 314-117, but Boebert failed to appear and vote no [...]

Biden and McCarthy finally reached a debt-ceiling deal on Saturday night. It codifies the end of the student-loan payment pause while protecting Biden's broad debt relief. Advocates are upset with [...]

Byline: W. Lee Radcliffe The G Fund is quite possibly the most boring investment vehicle available to any group of investors in the United States. The fund was the first [...]

Costa Rica's EFF will continue to support the government's efforts to reduce the non-financial public-sector deficit, which narrowed from a pre-pandemic average of 5.7% of GDP in 2016-19 to 2.5% [...]

Since 2021 the government has allocated about EUR11.2bn (US$12bn) in energy support measures, to be partly financed by new taxes on utilities and banks (worth Kc80bn). This comes after increasing [...]

Chances of a US debt default have more than tripled since the start of the year, according to MSCI. MSCI said trading activity in US government credit default swaps have [...]

What's happened? On February 14th Oman's cabinet approved a new social protection law decreed by Sultan Haitham bin Tariq, which includes cash benefits and social insurance programmes at an annual [...]

Since 2021 the government has allocated about EUR11.2bn (US$12bn) in energy support measures, to be partly financed by new taxes on utilities and banks (Kc80bn). This comes after increasing spending [...]

What's happened? In December legislators approved the government's expansionary budget for 2023. The plan does not include any new initiatives to curb spending or to raise revenue; in fact, at [...]