{"id":63946,"date":"2018-05-31T01:03:37","date_gmt":"2018-05-31T05:03:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=63946"},"modified":"2018-05-31T01:03:37","modified_gmt":"2018-05-31T05:03:37","slug":"biggest-bond-rally-since-2016-came-at-right-time-for-hedge-funds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/05\/2018\/biggest-bond-rally-since-2016-came-at-right-time-for-hedge-funds.html","title":{"rendered":"Biggest Bond Rally Since 2016 Came at Right Time for Hedge Funds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n(Bloomberg) Speculators in Treasuries futures proved prescient coming into this week: They turned bullish on two-year notes and pared short bets on 10-year debt heading into the biggest bond-market rally since 2016.   An escalating political crisis in Italy roiled financial markets Tuesday and drove investors to the safety of Treasuries. Two-year yields fell about 16 basis points to 2.32 percent. Ten-year yields sank 15 basis points to 2.78 percent, for the steepest drop since June 2016.   <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2018-05-29\/italy-mayhem-a-win-for-speculators-in-treasury-two-year-notes\">To read this article: <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Bloomberg) Speculators in Treasuries futures proved prescient coming into this week: They turned bullish on two-year notes and pared short bets on 10-year debt heading into the biggest bond-market rally since 2016. An escalating political crisis in Italy roiled financial [&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-63946","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63946","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=63946"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63946\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63947,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63946\/revisions\/63947"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}