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Hedge funds are stepping back into euro rates steepener trades after taking profits during April’s tariff-driven turbulence, betting that the gap between short- and long-term swap rates will continue ...
JP Morgan incurred two value-at-risk backtesting breaches in the first quarter – a volatile three months that saw the bank’s loss-potential gauge hit its highest in three years.
Global trade tensions have turned the normally benign Hong Kong dollar into a treacherous currency to trade, with wild spot ...
It’s a source of frustration to members of the European Parliament (MEPs), who say the time is coming for the European ...
High-profile hacks are a clear and present danger, undermining business confidence as well as operability. For the financial ...
Foreign speculators, carry unwinds and central bank inaction fuelled the 10% move, not just life insurers, say traders ...
The losses, which a senior rates trader at a European bank estimates at more than $1 billion across banks and hedge funds, came from forced unwinds of leveraged linear and options-based bets on Bank ...
American Express’s structural currency hedges lost $198 million in value during the first quarter, as the US dollar weakened in response to early signs of aggressive trade measures from US President ...
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The authors investigate volatility spillover across the Covid-19 pandemic, Russia-Ukraine conflict and the collapse of ...
Achieving consistent performance in the sharpest of downturns, though, has remained elusive for CTA managers. Trend-following strategies rely on backward-looking signals and have often suffered losses ...