China's $1 Trillion Bond Leverage Unwinds as Pimco Senses Panic

  • Investors get squeezed as bond prices fall, repo rates rise
  • ``It looks like everybody is cutting their leverage''

A man walks over a bridge in front of the skyline of the Lujiazui Financial District in Pudong in Shanghai at dawn on Dec. 1, 2015.

Photographer: JOHANNES EISELE/AFP via Getty Images
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