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Commentators are highlighting a rough day for US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, as bond and currency markets moved against him on several fronts at once. The yen fell while US and Japanese yields rose alongside higher oil prices, which observers read as a sign that inflation pressures in both the US and Japan are worsening. Some posts link the pressure to the Iran conflict and warn the US is already heading toward a debt crisis, putting further upward pressure on Treasury yields.