{"id":63667,"date":"2018-05-13T00:05:14","date_gmt":"2018-05-13T04:05:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=63667"},"modified":"2018-05-15T00:17:06","modified_gmt":"2018-05-15T04:17:06","slug":"that-big-hedge-fund-short-squeeze-in-treasuries-is-no-sure-thing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/05\/2018\/that-big-hedge-fund-short-squeeze-in-treasuries-is-no-sure-thing.html","title":{"rendered":"That Big Hedge-Fund Short Squeeze in Treasuries Is No Sure Thing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n(Bloomberg) The \u201cweakest hands\u201d in the world\u2019s biggest bond market &#8212; speculators who can switch positions on a dime &#8212; appear to have a much firmer grip than they\u2019re given credit for.   Hedge funds have shown no signs of backing down from their unprecedented bets against U.S. Treasuries, even after yields plateaued and fell into a range the past three weeks. Sometimes referred to as momentum chasers or \u201cfast money,\u201d their unwavering commitment to short wagers indicates the pressure toward higher yields may not go away soon.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2018-05-09\/that-big-hedge-fund-short-squeeze-in-treasuries-is-no-sure-thing\">To read this article:<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Bloomberg) The \u201cweakest hands\u201d in the world\u2019s biggest bond market &#8212; speculators who can switch positions on a dime &#8212; appear to have a much firmer grip than they\u2019re given credit for. Hedge funds have shown no signs of backing [&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-63667","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63667","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=63667"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63667\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63668,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63667\/revisions\/63668"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}