{"id":67130,"date":"2018-12-17T01:29:57","date_gmt":"2018-12-17T06:29:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=67130"},"modified":"2018-12-19T02:26:10","modified_gmt":"2018-12-19T07:26:10","slug":"hedge-fund-moves-at-short-end-of-u-s-curve-show-fed-cuts-not-too-far-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/12\/2018\/hedge-fund-moves-at-short-end-of-u-s-curve-show-fed-cuts-not-too-far-away.html","title":{"rendered":"Hedge Fund Moves At Short End of U.S. Curve Show Fed Cuts Not Too Far Away"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n(Reuters) The Federal Reserve will raise interest rates later this week and probably again early next year, but that will be the end of tightening cycle and it won\u2019t be long before rate cuts are on the table. That\u2019s the message being sent out by the latest twists to hedge fund positioning at the short end of the U.S. Treasury curve: speculators now hold a record short position in two-year futures, while bullish momentum in five-year bonds is the strongest in over a decade.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-global-markets-speculators\/hedge-fund-moves-at-short-end-of-u-s-curve-show-fed-cuts-not-too-far-away-mcgeever-idUSKBN1OG1F2\">To read this article:<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Reuters) The Federal Reserve will raise interest rates later this week and probably again early next year, but that will be the end of tightening cycle and it won\u2019t be long before rate cuts are on the table. That\u2019s 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-67130","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67130","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=67130"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67130\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67131,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67130\/revisions\/67131"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}