{"id":68582,"date":"2019-03-27T03:15:06","date_gmt":"2019-03-27T07:15:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=68582"},"modified":"2019-03-27T03:15:06","modified_gmt":"2019-03-27T07:15:06","slug":"yields-below-zero-spell-trouble-for-hedge-funds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/03\/2019\/yields-below-zero-spell-trouble-for-hedge-funds.html","title":{"rendered":"Yields Below Zero Spell Trouble for Hedge Funds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n(Bloomberg) Betting that government bond yields will rise is the trade that keeps on giving \u2013 giving pain, that is. With the U.S. Treasury market signaling that the world\u2019s biggest economy may be heading into a recession, investors are once again paying for the privilege of owning the benchmark German bond. Remember in April 2015 when fixed-income guru Bill Gross said he\u2019d spied \u201cthe short of a lifetime\u201d by betting against German debt? Since then, the trend has been far from a hedge fund manager\u2019s friend. While the 10-year bund spiked to 1 percent in about mid-2015, a year later it was back down to minus 0.2 percent. After spending most of the second half of 2016 below zero, the yield began an erratic climb to 0.8 percent \u2013 a rise that peaked about a year ago.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/opinion\/articles\/2019-03-25\/german-bond-yields-below-zero-spell-trouble-for-hedge-funds\">To read this article:<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Bloomberg) Betting that government bond yields will rise is the trade that keeps on giving \u2013 giving pain, that is. With the U.S. Treasury market signaling that the world\u2019s biggest economy may be heading into a recession, investors are once [&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-68582","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68582","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=68582"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68582\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68583,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68582\/revisions\/68583"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}