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Global Daily: Relief and anxiety
Bessent, a successful macro hedge fund manager, is associated with a preference to reduce the US budget deficit to 3% of GDP, which clearly suggests less appetite for deficit spending. At the same time he is reportedly in favour of stripping back regulation to raise US growth to 3% and ‘layering in’ tariffs gradually. US stock futures are higher on the hope that regulation may be cut while Treasury yields have fallen


