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...The US state department has characterised the suppression of the Uyghur minority in Xinjiang as “genocide”....
...David Asher, a senior fellow at the Hudson Institute and a former US state department official who has worked on sanctions and counter-terrorism operations relating to Iran, said the scheme showed how IRGC-connected...
...“For them to sit on a significant pot of money — tens of millions of dollars — with no transparency is very surprising and disappointing,” said Joshua Meservey, senior fellow at the Hudson Institute think-tank...
...China’s holdings of treasuries fell $16.4bn to $805.4bn, the lowest level since 2009, according to data from the Treasury department....
...About $15bn of the total $21.2bn in net sales came from disposals of US Treasuries, according to data from the US Treasury Department, which captures trades by investors such as the People’s Bank of China...
...The benchmark 10-year yield slid as much as 12bp after the Treasury’s refunding announcement, v FactSet....
...Menendez, the son of Cuban immigrants, rose under the tutelage of William V Musto, the mayor of Union City from 1962 to 1982, with a four-year interregnum....
...., Ltd. v. Banco Popular Del Peru or Allied Bank Int’l v. Banco Credito Agricola de Cartago is your idea of fun....
...The US Treasury will place SenseTime on a list of “Chinese military-industrial complex companies”....
...The move comes just days ahead of US Treasury secretary Janet Yellen’s visit to Beijing, which begins on Thursday, in a trip billed as a bid to stabilise the turbulent US-China relationship....
...In June 2020, Cameron texted Zahawi: “Lex Greensill . . . says you are being v helpful over HMT and CBILS programme”, according to the former prime minister’s disclosures to the Treasury select committee...
...Hudson said he had called for a stop in cuts to healthcare and life sciences research in conversations with Number 10 and the Treasury....
...Demand for US workers rebounded in September, with employers adding 437,000 job openings, bringing the total number of vacancies to 10.7mn, the labour department said....
...The Fed comments come after the commerce department last week reported that the US economy shrank for a second consecutive quarter, meeting one of the common criteria for a recession....
...The fall in yields came after a report from the commerce department showed the world’s biggest economy contracted at a 0.9 per cent annualised rate in the second quarter of this year, worse than expectations...
...But escalating sanctions following its invasion of Ukraine have frozen the country out of the global financial system, and the US treasury department last month closed a sanctions loophole that allowed American...
...David Asher, a former state department official and senior fellow at the Hudson Institute, said: “All of this together should have a devastating effect, if combined with sufficiently tough messaging from...
...David Cameron, the former prime minister who earned millions of pounds as a boardroom adviser to the controversial financing firm, told Zahawi via text in 2020 that he had been “v helpful” with Greensill...
...The writer is a former state department official and senior fellow at Hudson Institute US deputy Treasury secretary Wally Adeyemo toured Europe last month on a drive to strengthen EU sanctions and bolster...
...The Treasury Department imposed investment restrictions on SenseTime, accusing it of enabling human rights abuses against Muslim Uyghurs in Xinjiang....
...to the Treasury, the Federation of Small Businesses also called for the government to extend tax breaks, such as the one-year relief for property improvements....
...Additional reporting by Hudson Lockett in Hong Kong...
...“The growing apprehension surrounding the global rebound . . . has contributed to the bid for Treasuries that we suspect has ample room to extend,” said Ian Lyngen, head of US rates strategy at BMO Capital...
...US president Joe Biden’s administration is widely expected to include Taiwan in its semi-annual name-and-shame list this month because it meets all three criteria used by the Treasury department to evaluate...
...Treasuries were little moved in Asia trading, but investors were looking ahead to a Treasury department auction on Wednesday of $38bn of 10-year notes, followed by a sale of $24bn in 30-year bonds on Thursday...
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