Wednesday, November 1, 2023

The rush into bonds

Here's today's Big Take.

Nov. 1, 2023

The US Treasury building is seen in Washington on Aug. 15, 2023.  Credit: Bloomberg

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For much of the past two decades, most US government debt was sequestered in the vaults of the Federal Reserve, foreign central banks and commercial lenders that used it as a kind of cash reserve.

Trading was quiet. Yields were pinned day after day at rock-bottom levels. Hedge funds, attracted by riskier investments that offered the promise of fatter profits, mostly stayed away.

Those days have been brought to an end by the post-pandemic surge in inflation — and fast-money traders are plowing in. 

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