Hedge Funds Catapulted Treasury Shorts to Record at Wrong Time
- Investors boost net short UST futures bets to most since 2006
- ‘Short US Treasuries positioning was at an extreme’: Macquarie
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Hedge funds extended short positions on Treasuries to a record just before smaller-than-expected US bond sales and weaker jobs data spurred a rally.
Leveraged funds ramped up net short Treasury futures positions to the most in data going back to 2006, according to an aggregate of the latest Commodity Futures Trading Commission figures as of Oct. 31. The bets persisted even though the cash bonds had rallied the week before.