{"id":64036,"date":"2018-06-06T01:13:21","date_gmt":"2018-06-06T05:13:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=64036"},"modified":"2018-06-06T01:13:21","modified_gmt":"2018-06-06T05:13:21","slug":"hedge-funds-are-shifting-their-big-short-in-bonds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/06\/2018\/hedge-funds-are-shifting-their-big-short-in-bonds.html","title":{"rendered":"Hedge Funds Are Shifting Their Big Short in Bonds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(Bloomberg) Hedge funds and other large speculators are trying to catch one of the biggest falling knives in financial markets. They\u2019re wagering, essentially, that the persistent flattening of the U.S. yield curve has run its course. It\u2019s a bet against what\u2019s been one of the $14.9 trillion Treasury market\u2019s clearest no-brainer trades, which has benefited as short-term interest rates have climbed with Federal Reserve rate hikes, while longer-term yields have been held relatively in check by stubbornly low inflation. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/view\/articles\/2018-06-05\/hedge-funds-are-shifting-their-big-short-in-bonds\">To read this article:<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Bloomberg) Hedge funds and other large speculators are trying to catch one of the biggest falling knives in financial markets. They\u2019re wagering, essentially, that the persistent flattening of the U.S. yield curve has run its course. It\u2019s a bet against [&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-64036","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64036","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=64036"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64036\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64037,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64036\/revisions\/64037"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64036"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}