Heads-up: "Hedgies Pile Into Long Bonds"
From MarketBeat:
A bit of a red flag here, spotlighted by Bank of America Merrill Lynch
analysts in their weekly Hedge Fund Monitor note. It seems that the fast
money crowd has been piling into 30-year Treasury bond futures lately.
As diehard market geeks know, the 30-year bond sees the biggest price
changes based on relatively small changes in interest rates. So buying
the long bond is one of the most effective ways to bet on a drop in
interest rates.
And that’s what hedge funds have been doing lately, BofA
Merrill analysts write, citing the weekly Commitment of Traders report
issued every Friday by the Commodities Futures Trading Commission....MORE