The Tell
‘We expect to hear additional guidance on the X-date from Yellen in the next two weeks,’ say BofA strategists
Investors are watching for progress in Congress to raise the U.S. debt limit.
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Worries over a looming deadline to raise the U.S. debt ceiling are rippling through the Treasury bill market, according to BofA Global Research.
BofA strategists said in a rates research note Friday that they’ve pulled forward their estimate of the so-called X-date, when the U.S. government risks hitting its borrowing limit and technically defaulting on its debt obligations, to August 1. The revised estimate “could slip to late July,” they said, from their previously anticipated X-date of mid-to-early August.
“We…
