European Central Bankers Worry U.S. Tensions Could Bring More Market Turbulence
Officials said Treasury interventions and possible political pressure could unsettle markets and threaten the Fed’s dollar swap lines, a cornerstone of financial stability.
- At the Kansas City Fed's annual Jackson Hole Economic Symposium, European central bankers expressed anxiety that U.S. Treasury interventions and potential political meddling threaten long-standing global financial norms.
- Recent Treasury interventions to prop up the Japanese yen and lower longer-term borrowing costs concerned European officials, who fear the administration is willing to take "unusual measures" to cap rates.
- European officials were particularly annoyed by the lack of notice regarding euro sales, with one source stating, "The message to me is that the U.S. does whatever it wants," violating customary communication norms.
- Concerns persist that political pressure from President Donald Trump could eventually compromise dollar liquidity backstops provided by the Federal Reserve, considered a cornerstone of global financial stability.
- Treasury officials asserted bond buybacks are "not monetary policy or an effort to impose a cap on interest rates," while Bessent prepares to discuss financial stability with G20 finance ministers in the coming days.
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Global Market: European central bankers leave Jackson Hole uneasy over US policy shifts
European central bankers left the Jackson Hole symposium concerned that recent US Treasury interventions could strain long-standing norms of global financial cooperation. Unannounced yen intervention, Treasury bond buybacks and uncertainty over Fed dollar swap lines have raised concerns about Washington’s growing role in global financial markets.
European central bank governors leave the Jackson Hall meetings amid fears of American interventions that threaten global financial norms, after movements about yen and bonds and fear of extending them to exchange lines.
Europe's central bankers fear more turbulence in testy U.S. relations
Officials in European central banks have been increasingly concerned about the future of financial cooperation with the US, amid concerns that unusual interventions by the US administration in currency and bond markets might further disrupt the global markets. A report of the Euronext platform, quoted from sources close to the discussions held on the margins of the annual economic symposium [...], cited US Treasury interventions in currency and …
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