Year after year, decade after decade, officials in Tokyo, Beijing, Seoul and beyond dutifully bought U.S. Treasury securities ...

"That would be a very bad day for the Treasury." Japan held $1,125.9 trillion in Treasury Securities in February, up from $1,079.3 the month before. China held $784.3 billion, up from $760.8 billion.

Now, the opposite has occurred. Hedge funds and other investors have dumped Treasury securities even as stocks plunged, pushing up yields that are used to benchmark everything from mortgage rates ...

Deputy Treasury Secretary Michael Faulkender said that US officials are discussing a potential rule change for banks that ...

A week into President Donald Trump’s global trade war that has upset financial markets, a new unsettling red flag is hitting the financial system: People are selling U.S. Treasury bonds.

In one sense, foreign demand for Treasury securities allows the United States ... indirectly lowering operating costs for American businesses and consumers. Many countries with close financial ...

U.S. government bonds, known as Treasuries because they are issued by the U.S. Treasury, are backed by the full faith of the American government ... at National Alliance Securities, wrote in ...

Why would traders care that yields rose on 10-year treasury securities? It is a sign of trouble that treasury yields would rise as stocks and other assets are cratering. To back up, the market for ...

The selloff in Treasuries, which are debt securities issued by the Treasury Department ... Others fretted that foreign investors — who own about a third of the U.S. Treasury market — were selling ...

That’s because the freshly-minted Treasury — which is called the “on-the-run” security — is the most liquid. After a few weeks or months of issuance, it tends to settle into accounts at insurance ...