{"id":77578,"date":"2021-03-16T01:29:18","date_gmt":"2021-03-16T05:29:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=77578"},"modified":"2021-03-16T01:52:53","modified_gmt":"2021-03-16T05:52:53","slug":"hedge-funds-kicked-off-2021-with-49-billion-sale-of-treasuries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/03\/2021\/hedge-funds-kicked-off-2021-with-49-billion-sale-of-treasuries.html","title":{"rendered":"Hedge Funds Kicked Off 2021 With $49 Billion Sale of Treasuries"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>(Bloomberg) Hedge funds offloaded the most Treasuries in nine months in January, foreshadowing a selloff in U.S. bonds that occurred just weeks later. The Cayman Islands, seen as a proxy for hedge funds and other leveraged accounts, dumped $49 billion of U.S. sovereign bonds, making it the largest net seller of the debt that month, according to the latest data from the Treasury Department.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/finance.yahoo.com\/news\/hedge-funds-kicked-off-2021-024137277.html?guccounter=1&amp;guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZ29vZ2xlLmNvbS8&amp;guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAEMPAoUDstH-zUNp45KEqiKvkjIVYNmEFoQuFcfRXMjTXfxS9OpVYwhsjZS88XaGRbokneHmt0vO3CkG9jxed3-TKevX6wHfMv7bKVmk1vV-Gh_b02p3xr2EP5njUT-Tb7Bjm-xhSPdOfE1iu7p2Eq-sIV1xP_eca72Y-aEQFCxq\">To read this article:<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Bloomberg) Hedge funds offloaded the most Treasuries in nine months in January, foreshadowing a selloff in U.S. bonds that occurred just weeks later. The Cayman Islands, seen as a proxy for hedge funds and other leveraged accounts, dumped $49 billion [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77578","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77578","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=77578"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77578\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77579,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77578\/revisions\/77579"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}