Biggest Pain Trade Gives 37% Loss to Bond Bears Getting It Wrong
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What a dismal time for bond traders who were optimistic about growth.
Investors who poured more than $1 billion this year into a $3.8 billion leveraged exchange-traded fund that bets against long-dated U.S. Treasuries are suffering a 10.7 percent loss this month alone, Bloomberg data show. The fund is down 36.5 percent this year, a small window into the magnitude of pain in a market where many traders have been wagering debt prices would fall.