{"id":64008,"date":"2018-06-04T01:47:29","date_gmt":"2018-06-04T05:47:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=64008"},"modified":"2018-06-06T01:21:59","modified_gmt":"2018-06-06T05:21:59","slug":"hedge-funds-in-the-money-with-dollar-bets-struggling-with-treasuries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/06\/2018\/hedge-funds-in-the-money-with-dollar-bets-struggling-with-treasuries.html","title":{"rendered":"Hedge funds in the money with dollar bets, struggling with Treasuries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(Reuters) Hedge funds are having mixed fortunes with their currency and U.S. bond bets: Their growing faith in the dollar is being rewarded but they\u2019ve chosen the wrong time to open up a record short position in 10-year Treasuries. The 10-year yield\u2019s pop above 3 percent and rise to a seven-year peak of 3.13 percent in mid-May looks to have convinced many speculators to double down on their short bond positions on the expectation that the only way for yields was up.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/global-markets-speculators\/column-hedge-funds-in-the-money-with-dollar-bets-struggling-with-treasuries-mcgeever-idUSL5N1T6309\">To read this article:<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Reuters) Hedge funds are having mixed fortunes with their currency and U.S. bond bets: Their growing faith in the dollar is being rewarded but they\u2019ve chosen the wrong time to open up a record short position in 10-year Treasuries. 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-64008","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64008","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=64008"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64008\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64009,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64008\/revisions\/64009"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64008"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64008"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64008"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}