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G-20 summit discord amid global bond market selloff
The story so farTreasury yields hit new highs as world leaders clashed at the fractured G20 meeting, with the bond market strain coinciding with the summit's close. Analysts are examining the drivers behind a broad selloff in global bond markets that intensified around the time of the G20 summit.
Still watching
- Did the G20 finance ministers produce any joint communiqué or statement at the close of the Asheville summit, and if so, what did it say about Ukraine or Russia?
- Is the global bond market selloff primarily driven by the G20 discord, U.S. fiscal concerns, or other macroeconomic factors?
- What specific tariff disputes erupted at the Asheville G20 summit, and which countries were involved in the most heated exchanges?
- Will Russia's overnight missile and drone attack on Kyiv affect the diplomatic dynamics at the remainder of the Asheville summit?
- What were the substantive results, if any, of Bessent's meeting with the Canadian finance minister?
- What specific journalist outlets or credentials were denied access to the Asheville G20 meeting, and on what grounds?
How it developed
G-20 summit discord amid global bond market selloff
- Treasury yields hit new highs as world leaders clashed at the fractured G20 meeting, with the bond market strain coinciding with the summit's close.
- Analysts are examining the drivers behind a broad selloff in global bond markets that intensified around the time of the G20 summit.
G20 finance ministers summit Asheville 2026
- The United States invited Russian Finance Minister Anton Siluanov to the G20 finance ministers meeting in Asheville, North Carolina, drawing sharp objections from European counterparts who said there could be no return to normality with Russia while it continues to wage war on Ukraine.
- U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent met directly with Russian Finance Minister Siluanov at the Asheville summit and told him that U.S. sanctions on Russia will remain in place until the war in Ukraine ends, according to a source.
- Russia launched a drone and ballistic missile attack on Kyiv and the surrounding region overnight, killing at least 12 people, even as its finance minister attended the G20 gathering in North Carolina.
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