, the nation’s largest bank, meet every day in a dedicated “war room,” CEO Jamie Dimon told Bloomberg earlier this week. If no agreement is struck as the deadline approaches, they could meet up to three times per day.“There’s actual investor nervousness about the risk of default,” said Priya Misra, head of global rates strategy for TD Securities. “The private sector is doing a lot of hoping and praying that somebody blinks.
The stakes of the debt ceiling fight are so monumental because of the role that Treasury securities play in global finance. Investors regard U.S. government bonds, bills and notes as “risk-free” assets. The price of everything else, such as stocks, corporate bonds and debt issued by other governments, is set in relation to that of Treasurys.
name from a Hebrew expression meaning “I handled it,” which is precisely what Spoja, as CFO, is trying to do.About 60 percent of the company’s 1,000-plus employees work outside the United States. Payroll is distributed in U.S. and Canadian dollars, euros, British pounds and Israeli shekels.Spoja usually converts dollars into other currencies on the spot market when it is time to issue paychecks.
One-month T-bills maturing around the date when the government could run out of cash offer yields around 5.5 percent — roughly 0.3 percentage points higher than three-month bills. That may not sound like much. But it’s an unusually wide positive gap for these type of instruments. On every $1 million,, the higher yield would translate into an extra $3,000 in yearly interest.“We actually think these bills are good value right now,” Klein said. “U.S.