Wall Street Opens Higher, Benefiting From the Respite in Interest Rates
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The local market opens with green numbers, as there is an increase of 0.33 percent for the main index of the Mexican Stock Exchange.
The US Treasury Department is unexpectedly going to buy back more long-term government bonds in an attempt to lower long-term interest rates. Two weeks ago, the US also announced a buyback program. That program is now being doubled.
Around 2:10 PM GMT, the Dow Jones was up 0.45% and the broader S&P 500 index was up 0.30%. Only the Nasdaq, more heavily weighted towards technology stocks, was in the red (-0.28%). In pre-market electronic trading, the trend was rather cautious. But the stock indices gained momentum after the US Treasury Department announced its intention to at least double the volume of bond purchases, particularly of long-term bonds (10 to 30 years). In shor…
The U.S. Treasury Department is going to repurchase significantly more long-term government bonds than previously announced. Instead of 2 billion dollars, the U.S. government plans to allocate at least 4 billion dollars for this. The move follows a rise in government bond yields to their highest level in a long time. The repurchase of the debt securities is intended to push interest rates down.
The relaxation of bond rates in the United States relieved Wall Street on Wednesday, after the announcement of the acceleration of bond buybacks by the US Treasury, while the dollar slipped sharply in the wake.
By January 2027, there was a decrease of 13.749%, in the previous adjustment, to the minimum intraday of 13.72%
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