{"id":52915,"date":"2016-06-06T08:35:30","date_gmt":"2016-06-06T12:35:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=52915"},"modified":"2016-06-06T08:37:12","modified_gmt":"2016-06-06T12:37:12","slug":"bond-rally-squeezes-hedge-funds-that-were-most-short-since-2007","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/06\/2016\/bond-rally-squeezes-hedge-funds-that-were-most-short-since-2007.html","title":{"rendered":"Bond Rally Squeezes Hedge Funds After Most Short Since 2007"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(Bloomberg) Bond bears were licking their wounds after a weaker-than-forecast May jobs report sent Treasuries surging. Data released later Friday suggest the pain was widespread.<\/p>\n<p>Hedge funds and other speculative investors were net short Treasury two-year note futures in the week ended May 31 by the most since before the financial crisis, according to U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission data. Two-year notes surged Friday by the most since September after the Labor Department reported the U.S. created only 38,000 jobs in May, the lowest monthly increase in almost six years.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2016-06-03\/bond-rally-squeezes-hedge-funds-that-were-most-short-since-2007\">To read this article:<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Bloomberg) Bond bears were licking their wounds after a weaker-than-forecast May jobs report sent Treasuries surging. Data released later Friday suggest the pain was widespread. Hedge funds and other speculative investors were net short Treasury two-year note futures in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52915","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52915","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52915"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52915\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52918,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52915\/revisions\/52918"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}