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Bitunix analyst: 5%Are high interest rates becoming the new normal? U.S. Treasury buyback policy is being repriced by the market
BlockBeats reports that October 8, the issue facing long-term U.S. interest rates is no longer merely expectations for Federal Reserve policy, but whether the Treasury Department's own debt-management tools can actually change market pricing. Bessent expanded 10-year to 30-year Treasury buyback limits to 6000000000 USD, originally intended in part to improve the liquidity of older issues, but the 10-year yield still rose to 5.35%、30-year yield approached 5.7%, even higher than before the buyback expansion of August. When additional policy tools fail to lower long-term rates, the market will naturally reassess the situation: the core forces truly driving yields higher may still be massive supply, fiscal deficits, and investors' demand for a higher term premium.
This is also the key to Warren's questioning of the Treasury Department's “chaotic intervention.” Actual buyback purchases below the cap indicate that the Treasury Department is not providing unconditional support; if it then uses TGA cash or short-term debt financing to fund the buybacks, that merely adjusts the maturity structure and does not eliminate the government's overall financing needs. In other words, policy may improve market microstructure, but it may not absorb the long-term interest-rate pressure created by fiscal expansion.
High long-term bond yields are also reshaping asset comparisons. A BofA model suggests that the S&P 500 may deliver a return over the next years below 5%, while Treasuries already offer a more attractive starting yield; gold's break below 4100 USD indicates that when USD and real rates strengthen simultaneously, safe-haven demand may not be sufficient to offset the cost of holding the asset. As for BTC, the daily chart remains in a high-level range, currently around 83,487 USD, with liquidity near 87,000 USD above and 82,929 USD serving as a key near-term support zone below; if it breaks, the 76,000 to 80,000 USD and 70,000 to 73,000 USD zones would become subsequent areas of structural demand.
Therefore, what truly merits observation next is not how much the Treasury Department can buy back, but whether long-term yields can stabilize on their own amid high supply. If rates on the 10-year and 30-year maturities continue to rise, the opportunity costs of stocks, gold, and crypto assets will gradually increase; conversely, if high yields begin to suppress economic activity and capital expenditure, bonds may regain room for price recovery. What the market is testing now is precisely whether U.S. fiscal policy can control long-term funding costs.