the rate on the 3month treasury bill touched an almost 17year high on tuesday amid continuing debtceiling worries the shortdated yield jumped 202 basis points to 5253 from monday’s close of 5051 as of 920 am eastern time according to tradeweb that’s the highest level since july 2006 tom graff head of investments at baltimorebased facet wealth said the move came as the result of treasury secretary janet yellen’s statement that the us could default on debt as soon as june 1 if congress doesn’t increase the borrowing limit her comment “makes investors nervous about owning around that date and i think