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During August, the yield on the 30-year Treasury Bond hit a post-Global Financial Crisis (GFC) high of 5.34%. Subsequently, Treasury Secretary Bessent surprised the market by announcing plans to increase the size of buybacks for longer-dated US Government Bonds, briefly pushing yields lower.