{"id":1530383,"date":"2025-04-15T03:46:32","date_gmt":"2025-04-15T07:46:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/?p=1530383"},"modified":"2025-04-15T03:46:32","modified_gmt":"2025-04-15T07:46:32","slug":"mizuho-pretty-high-confidence-data-will-show-china-dumping-us-treasuries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/mizuho-pretty-high-confidence-data-will-show-china-dumping-us-treasuries\/1530383\/","title":{"rendered":"Mizuho: “Pretty High” Confidence Data Will Show China Dumping US Treasuries"},"content":{"rendered":"

Mizuho: “Pretty High” Confidence Data Will Show China Dumping US Treasuries<\/span><\/p>\n

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Now that even the shoeshine boy is speculating whether China is selling its US treasuries (to kill three <\/strong><\/em>birds with one stone: i) hammer the dollar, ii) push yields higher and iii) prop up the yuan, if only to give the impression that China is winning the trade war something we described here<\/a>), Mizuho has a \u201cpretty high\u201d degree of confidence that data will eventually show if China has been selling US Treasuries, <\/strong>according to\u00a0Jordan Rochester, EMEA head of FICC strategy at the bank.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnnoyingly we don\u2019t get the data quickly enough, the data\u2019s always lagged,\u201d Rochester said on Monday in an\u00a0interview with Bloomberg TV\u00a0when asked if the Chinese have been selling US debt.<\/p>\n

“You\u2019ve got the extreme tariffs on China and also future reciprocal tariffs that will be extreme on other Asian central banks and they\u2019ve got to defend their currencies<\/strong>.”<\/p>\n

\u201cYou\u2019ve seen a much slower pace of selloff in the renminbi than you\u2019d expect, <\/strong>given the size of the shock to their system, so there\u2019s clearly some sort of smoothing going on in the FX market, and to do that a central bank has to sell the US Treasuries and others to fund that FX intervention\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

Echoing what we said last week, Rochester notes that for now, \u201cwe can only speculate\u201d on whether the Chinese are selling, \u201cbut we\u2019ll find out in the data in due course,\u201d adding that his degree of confidence that the data will in due course reveal China’s selling is \u201cpretty high.”<\/strong><\/p>\n

Separately, Rochester said he was \u201csurprised\u201d the dollar was \u201con the back foot\u201d on Monday morning, after Trump provided\u00a0some exemptions on his proposed tariff activity\u00a0over the weekend<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is alarm bells, I think, for US Treasury Secretary\u00a0Scott Bessent,\u201d Rochester said; \u201cHe\u2019s now seeing a watering down of tariffs but still dollar weakness and US rates selling off still \u2014 it\u2019s a horrible toxic combination\u201d, which however can easily be explained precisely by Rochester’s core thesis, namely that China has been aggressively selling US paper, and is opportunistically converting the US-denominated proceeds into yuan at just the right time to give the impression that, as so many others have been parroting, that the US dollar is losing its reserve status.<\/p>\n

His full interview starts around the 37 minutes mark.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Tyler Durden<\/a><\/span>
\nMon, 04\/14\/2025 – 23:46<\/span><\/p>\n

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