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Two online ads promise Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac are working to boost purchase applications but it's unclear whether they signal interest in a stock offering.
Any failure to follow Bessent's barely camouflaged calls to raise interest rates would now not only surprise traders who fully expect a move, but also send the yen tumbling.
The new plan drove yields on the longest bond lower by nearly 10 basis points to 5.18%, pulling them back from their highest levels since 2007. The dollar fell by the most in three months.
Greenspan's 18 years as Fed chief, from 1987 until his retirement at the start of 2006, were marked by a stock market boom and low unemployment.
Any decline in Japan's Treasury stockpile may put further upward pressure on U.S. yields, which are already being driven higher by surging oil prices and concern the Iran war will widen America's fiscal deficit.
