A propos - Gulf allies have requested financial support, US Treasury Secretary says
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“U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said on Wednesday that a number of allies in the Gulf region and in Asia have requested currency swap lines from the United States to help deal with energy shocks and other fallout from the Middle East war.”
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Multiple web search results, citing reports from different sources (Reuters, general news reporting), confirm that U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent stated that allies in the Gulf region and Asia requested currency swap lines due to energy shocks and fallout from the Middle East conflict. The claim is consistently reported across multiple search snippets.
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— Scott Kenneth Homer Bessent ( BESS-ənt; born August 21, 1962) is an American businessman and government official serving since 2025 as the 79th United States secretary of the treasury. Bessent was a p…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_Bessent
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_Bessent
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— The Ukraine–United States Mineral Resources Agreement is an agreement between the United States and Ukraine establishing terms for joint investment in Ukraine's natural resources, including critical r…
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— The United States secretary of the treasury is the head of the United States Department of the Treasury, and is the chief financial officer of the federal government of the United States. The secretar…
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