Bessent ‘to-do’ list shows proposal for US to buy $5bn-$10bn of Japanese yen

The Guardian reports that US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent inadvertently revealed plans to purchase five to ten billion dollars in Japanese yen when a Reuters photographer captured his notepad during a Cabinet meeting at Camp David on Friday morning. The handwritten to-do list, photographed over Bessent's shoulder during a portion of the meeting open to press, showed the yen purchase as an action item—a disclosure that's now raising questions about the Treasury's plans.

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