# Stocks Retreat As Treasury Plans to Control Yields Fails

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Podcast: [MRKT Matrix](https://stenobird.com/podcast/mrkt-matrix-1373367)
Published: 2026-08-20T20:09:00+00:00
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MRKT Matrix - Thursday, August 20th Dow falls 600 points with stock losses increasing after a Treasury plan to tamp down yields fails (CNBC) Bessent says Treasury buyback operation could be more than $4 billion (CNBC) Fed and Treasury appear at odds when it comes to the markets (Axios) Walmart Shares Slump on Weakest Sales Growth in Over Six Years (WSJ) Retail Earnings Show US Consumers Keep Spending for the Right Price (Bloomberg) U.S. Workers Are Paying More for Healthcare, and Next Year Will Be Worse (WSJ) Anthropic Expects to Match SpaceX’s Record IPO Size or Top It (Bloomberg) Meta Has Quietly Become One of Microsoft’s Largest AI Customers (Bloomberg) --- Subscribe to our newsletter: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠http://riskreversal.substack.com/⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ MRKT Matrix by RiskReversal Media is a daily AI powered podcast bringing you the top stories moving financial markets Story curation by RiskReversal, scripts by Perplexity Pro, voice by ElevenLabs

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