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U.S. Treasury Secretary Yellen warned Congress that the government has less than three weeks to raise the debt limit or risk default and financial instability.
Janet Yellen, the U.S. Treasury Secretary, on Friday cautioned that the government will reach its borrowing limit on Tuesday, necessitating the use of "extraordinary measures" to prevent a potential default.
Signs of life being breathed back into China's economy and a strong rally on Wall Street on Friday bode well for Asian markets on Monday, although nervousness around President-elect Donald Trump's inauguration could temper the optimism. U.S. markets will be closed for Martin Luther King Jr. Day, so global liquidity will be lighter than usual, and U.S. debt ceiling jitters are back in sharp focus. Investors have broadly welcomed the 'market-friendly' parts of Trump's expected agenda like tax cuts and deregulation.
(Reuters) -Uncertainty over how the U.S. Treasury will manage debt issuance over the next few months drove some Federal Reserve officials to contemplate at their last policy meeting slowing or pausing the ongoing drawdown of their balance sheet until greater clarity arrives. Fed officials, in minutes of the central bank’s January 28-29 Federal Open Market Committee meeting released on Wednesday, flagged the challenge of getting a clean read on market liquidity as the government wrangles over spending plans amid a legally mandated borrowing cap that will affect how the Treasury Department manages its cash. “Regarding the potential for significant swings in reserves over coming months related to debt ceiling dynamics, various participants noted that it may be appropriate to consider pausing or slowing balance sheet runoff until the resolution of this event,” the minutes noted.