{"id":64749,"date":"2018-07-15T03:08:16","date_gmt":"2018-07-15T07:08:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=64749"},"modified":"2018-07-18T01:55:06","modified_gmt":"2018-07-18T05:55:06","slug":"hedge-funds-pin-macro-hopes-more-on-u-s-yield-curve-than-dollar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/07\/2018\/hedge-funds-pin-macro-hopes-more-on-u-s-yield-curve-than-dollar.html","title":{"rendered":"Hedge funds pin macro hopes more on U.S. yield curve than dollar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(Reuters) Hedge funds raised their bets last week on a flatter U.S. yield curve and a stronger dollar. Their bond bet shows signs of coming good as the yield curve moves towards inversion, but their FX wager? Not so much.The gap between two- and 10-year U.S. bond yields is just 25 basis points, the narrowest in over a decade. Every time it has turned negative since the early 1970s, recession has followed.<\/p>\n<p>Whether \u201cthis time it\u2019s different\u201d is the subject of intense debate. Hedge funds and speculators had built up a record net short position in 10-year Treasuries futures earlier this month, but reduced that fairly substantially last week.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/global-markets-hedgefunds\/rpt-column-hedge-funds-pin-macro-hopes-more-on-us-yield-curve-than-dollar-mcgeever-idUSL8N1UC3D0\">To read this article:<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Reuters) Hedge funds raised their bets last week on a flatter U.S. yield curve and a stronger dollar. Their bond bet shows signs of coming good as the yield curve moves towards inversion, but their FX wager? Not so much.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-64749","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64749","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=64749"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64749\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64750,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64749\/revisions\/64750"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}