Investors Traded $596 Million of a Treasuries ETF in a Bet on a Trade War

  • GOVT saw $275 millon of inflows on Friday as tensions rise
  • Volume in iShares fund was about 20 times its daily average
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As a global trade war looks increasingly likely amid rising tensions between the U.S. and China and Europe, investors late last week placed their bets on an exchange-traded fund tracking Treasuries.