Business & Finance
Treasury Bond Buybacks Evoke Memory of Fed’s ‘Operation Twist’
Key Points
The Trump administration’s surprise move to ramp up buybacks of long-dated Treasuries is drawing parallels with the Federal Reserve’s “Operation Twist,” a strategy that was last deployed in 2011 to pull down bond yields.
The Trump administration’s surprise move to ramp up buybacks of long-dated Treasuries is drawing parallels with the Federal Reserve’s “Operation Twist,” a strategy that was last deployed in 2011 to pull down bond yields.