Executive orders, USTR tariffs, Commerce antidumping/CVD, Treasury refunding, sanctions, and fiscal deadlines.
Strictly nonpartisan analysis of dated federal actions, Federal Register notices, and Treasury schedules, following the money and market consequences.
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The Treasury held nominal coupon and floating-rate auction sizes flat at $125 billion in its November 4 quarterly refunding even as it projected $800 billion of first-quarter borrowing, deferring any long-end supply cut past the December 11 funding deadline and the re-imposed debt limit.
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Commerce preliminarily set antidumping margins of 47.21% to 68.88% on oil country tubular goods from Austria, Taiwan and the UAE, effective November 4, when cash deposits begin at the border.
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The midterm vote is priced as a fiscal event: the 10-year Treasury held near 4.954 percent while a December 11 continuing-resolution expiry, a debt ceiling Scope Ratings expects to reach by early 2027 and a November 4 refunding announcement set the tradable calendar.
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Commerce cut the countervailing duty most Canadian softwood importers post, from 14.19% to 12.80%, following a NAFTA binational panel order that overruled its 2017 determination; West Fraser's rate falls to 16.73% even as its cash deposit stays put.
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Washington deferred rather than imposed: the October 28 Section 232 proclamation covering robotics and industrial machinery opens negotiations and a 180-day recheck, with no rate set today.
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