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Gold Jumps, Curve Flattens On Report Treasury To Tap Trillion-Dollar TGA To Fund Bond Buybacks Having seen yields rebound from their initial decline following the upping of Treasury (long-end) buybacks to 'at least $4BN' per operation (and increased its total planned operations), Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent jawboned late last week about his 'bigger toolkit' and 'asymmetric information' in an attempt to further strengthen the 'Treasury Put'. Unfortunately for him, the market (vigilant as ever), decided to test him with yields ending the week at the highs. So this morning, two senior Treasury officials...

Amazon's Ring And Google's Nest Unwittingly Reveal The Severity Of The U.S. Surveillance State Authored by Glenn Greenwald via Substack, That the U.S. Surveillance State is rapidly growing to the point of ubiquity has been demonstrated over the past week by seemingly benign events. While the picture that emerges is grim, to put it mildly, at least Americans are again confronted with crystal clarity over how severe this has become. One of Google’s Nest surveillance cameras, whose recordings can be accessed by Google even if users don’t subscribe to the security firm’s...

Tether's XAUt Gold Token Receives Shariah Certification To Expand Islamic Finance Access Authored by Nate Kostar via CoinTelegraph.com, Tether’s gold-backed token XAUt has received Shariah certification from Amanah Advisors, a move that could expand access to the token among Islamic financial institutions and investors seeking Shariah-compliant exposure to physical gold. The certification found XAUt’s structure complies with key Islamic finance principles, including full backing by physical gold, the absence of interest and leverage, and transparent reserves. Each XAUt token represents one troy ounce of physical gold stored in Swiss vaults, according to Tether. The designation gives...