borrowing

While they still hold plenty of cash, they have added debt to fund share buybacks, and more recently have started borrowing heavily to fund their AI investments.

The Treasury Department’s borrowing plans could lower the 10-year Treasury note yield by a third of a percentage point over the medium term.

The Treasury Department’s borrowing plans could lower the 10-year Treasury note yield by a third of a percentage point over the medium term.

Cryptocurrencies and other risky assets tend to benefit from lower borrowing costs as it makes them more attractive relative to lower-yielding investments, such as bonds.

What policymakers were actually doing was signaling that they wouldn’t raise the key rate as rapidly as investors expected because such a big move in borrowing costs would tank the economy.