On Treasury's debt-purchase announcement The timing of the decision in between scheduled quarterly refunding announcements (just two weeks after the last one and hours before it is slated to sell $16 billion of 20-year debt) suggests that officials "didn't like what was happening" in the market, said one rate strategist. https://www.wsj.com/livecoverage/stock-market-today-dow-sp-500-nasdaq-08-19-2026/card/why-treasury-s-buyback-announcement-matters-1btxQci9AGssAfq1GCE2(Nick Timiraos)