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Sovereign debt is government-issued borrowing, such as bonds and loans, used to fund public spending and repaid from future revenue or market refinancing.
Marine Le Pen says she would cut France's EU budget contribution by 11 billion euros in 2027 if she wins next year's presidential election. France's public debt is already 119% of GDP, and economists cited by the FT call her savings plan unrealistic.
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IMF chief Kristalina Georgieva said in Bangkok that growth cannot cut more than $40 trillion in US debt fast enough and that deficits must come down. Rates are already at multidecade highs, the Associated Press reported, so costlier capital is the safer planning assumption until budgets tighten.
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Foreign secretary Ed Miliband will ask the World Bank and other development banks to use their balance sheets to refinance developing-country debt. Debt Justice welcomed the focus but says private lenders must share the cost.
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IMF's fiscal monitor says average G7 10-year yields rose more than 1 percentage point after the Iran war began in February, to their highest in nearly two decades. It warns that waiting will make the eventual adjustment more painful. France and the UK both have budgets in play.
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IMF fiscal chief Rodrigo Valdes says public debt is poised to hit 100% of GDP, the highest since World War Two, as G7 10-year yields climbed over 1 point. Nearly 30% of G7 and Spanish debt matures within a year. Investors should keep borrowing costs and fiscal risk in their planning.
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UNDP's No Time to Recover report says governments shielding up to 130 million of the world's poorest from high oil prices are running out of money. With conditions expected to worsen into spring, the cost of $100 oil is moving from state budgets onto households.
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SpaceX plans $30 billion of investment-grade bonds and $10 billion of bank loans to buy Nvidia chips, Reuters reported, citing sources. Debt spares its shareholders dilution but puts AI buyers in the same bond market as governments funding deficits.
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IMF chief Kristalina Georgieva urged governments to stop delaying debt cuts and raise borrowing costs as needed before 191 members meet in Bangkok. Her prescription points companies toward higher rates, while her call to regulate AI stayed at the level of principle.
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IMF chief Kristalina Georgieva said AI could add up to half a point a year to world growth, with investment set to match or exceed the railroads' share of GDP. The same boom lifts inflation and competes with governments for bond money, so economies outside the AI supply chain risk the higher rates without the growth.
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Argentina plans to offer citizenship for a $350,000 Treasury contribution or an $800,000 seven-year bond, in a scheme its advisers say could raise up to $2.5bn. At best that covers about a tenth of the nearly $25bn in foreign-currency debt the Treasury faces in 2027.
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US 10-year Treasury yields briefly hit 5.34% on Thursday, the highest since 2002, while traders priced only a modest chance of a Fed hike this month. Companies and governments rolling over debt are refinancing at the long-end price whatever the Fed decides.
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US 10-year Treasury yields rose to 5.30% on Wednesday, their highest since 2002, even though inflation came in cooler. Whatever drove it, growth or government debt, a cash-flow model that counted on cooling inflation to lower its discount rate now needs a higher one.
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France says its new budget will overshoot EU spending limits and lift debt to a record near 122% of GDP, even after 54 billion euros of cuts. Lenders now face a ratio still climbing into next year's presidential election, with candidates split on how to bring it down.
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IMF chief Kristalina Georgieva says an AI investment boom has offset the drag of $100 oil, keeping global growth at about 3% this year. She warns that the risk comes early, because the spending arrives well before the gains that would justify it.
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Traders betting on lasting inflation pushed the 10-year Treasury yield to 5.145% on Thursday, its highest since the 2007 financial crisis. Oil back above $105 keeps that bet alive, and AXA's chief economist names two more pressures, tech-sector borrowing and US debt, that would survive a truce.
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Foreign investors hold about $9.3 trillion of Treasuries, close to a third of publicly held debt, and the Treasury Secretary offered that to the House on September 15 as proof of confidence while the 30-year sat at 5.32%.
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The managed fiscal balance deficit is 3.1 trillion won and the planned debt increase is 106 trillion, so next year's bond supply is set by the fund's prefunding rather than by the gap between revenue and spending.
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Jean-Luc Melenchon would have the Bank of France cancel the 18% of national debt it holds, arithmetic that takes 116% of GDP down to about 95% and leaves this year's borrowing programme of more than $360 billion still looking for buyers.
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The Johns Hopkins economist advising Caracas puts approval odds at 50 to 80 percent. What passes or fails is the largest retirement of a currency since the euro, and the end of a lender of last resort.
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