{"id":65820,"date":"2018-09-21T00:23:53","date_gmt":"2018-09-21T04:23:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=65820"},"modified":"2018-09-21T00:23:53","modified_gmt":"2018-09-21T04:23:53","slug":"treasury-yields-take-flight-setting-up-big-shorts-for-rewards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/09\/2018\/treasury-yields-take-flight-setting-up-big-shorts-for-rewards.html","title":{"rendered":"Treasury Yields Take Flight, Setting Up Big Shorts for Rewards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(Bloomberg) Liftoff may finally have arrived for yields in the world\u2019s biggest debt market. That\u2019s good news for the fast-money crowd that\u2019s rarely been more bearishly positioned on 10-year Treasury futures. Yields on all maturities have taken flight this week, with longer-dated rates leading the charge higher. That\u2019s despite recent warnings by DoubleLine Capital\u2019s Jeffrey Gundlach that a \u201cmassive increase\u201d in short positions against 10-year and 30-year Treasury markets could spur a short squeeze. The yield on the benchmark 10-year note has surged firmly above the much-watched 3 percent mark, trading steady at 3.06 percent in Asia on Thursday after the highest U.S. close in four months. The most recent moves have reversed a small part of the relentless curve flattening that\u2019s been seen this year, pushing some yield gaps to the widest levels in more than a month. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2018-09-19\/treasury-yields-take-flight-setting-up-big-shorts-for-rewards\">To read this article:<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Bloomberg) Liftoff may finally have arrived for yields in the world\u2019s biggest debt market. That\u2019s good news for the fast-money crowd that\u2019s rarely been more bearishly positioned on 10-year Treasury futures. Yields on all maturities have taken flight this week, [&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-65820","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65820","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=65820"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65820\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65821,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65820\/revisions\/65821"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}