{"id":56234,"date":"2017-01-24T08:48:51","date_gmt":"2017-01-24T13:48:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=56234"},"modified":"2017-01-24T08:48:51","modified_gmt":"2017-01-24T13:48:51","slug":"hedge-funds-risk-treasuries-wipeout-after-bearish-bets-soar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/01\/2017\/hedge-funds-risk-treasuries-wipeout-after-bearish-bets-soar.html","title":{"rendered":"Hedge Funds Risk Treasuries Wipeout After Bearish Bets Soar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(Bloomberg) There\u2019s a big showdown looming in the U.S. Treasury market.<\/p>\n<p>The \u201cfast money,\u201d made up of hedge funds and other speculators, upped its bearish bets like never before this month, based on futures data for five-year notes. At the same time, \u201creal-money\u201d accounts, composed of institutional buyers like mutual funds and insurers, did the opposite and built up their bullish positions in much the same way.What will happen, especially in the era of Donald Trump, is anyone\u2019s guess. But for JPMorgan Chase &#038; Co.\u2019s Jay Barry, the speculators are sowing their own demise. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2017-01-23\/beware-the-hedge-fund-wipeout-in-treasuries-as-bearish-bets-soar\">To read this article:<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Bloomberg) There\u2019s a big showdown looming in the U.S. Treasury market. The \u201cfast money,\u201d made up of hedge funds and other speculators, upped its bearish bets like never before this month, based on futures data for five-year notes. At 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-56234","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56234","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=56234"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56234\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56235,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56234\/revisions\/56235"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}