US Treasury Bars Bloomberg, WSJ, NYT From G20 Finance Summit
· World · LiveMint, France 24
The US Treasury Department has excluded journalists from Bloomberg News, the Wall Street Journal, and a New York Times reporter from covering the G20 finance ministers and central bank governors meeting in Asheville, North Carolina, running from Sunday to Tuesday. The department offered no explanation for rejecting the accreditation requests, even as it had earlier said it expected to host more than 200 journalists from dozens of countries. The US holds the 2026 G20 presidency, and Bloomberg reporters based in the US, France, Italy, Japan, and China were also denied access. The German Finance Ministry successfully lobbied Treasury to accredit the NYT reporter travelling with Finance Minister Lars Klingbeil, but a similar push for a Bloomberg reporter accompanying Klingbeil failed. The summit comes as markets closely track Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent after his interventions in the yen and bond markets, with long-dated US bond yields hitting multiyear highs in August and the US nati
Why it matters
Press access restrictions at a US-hosted multilateral economic forum raise concerns about transparency in G20 deliberations on currency policy, debt sustainability, and the US-Iran economic pressure campaign, with direct implications for how Indian markets and policymakers track signals from Bessent's Treasury.
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