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CFTC Report Points To Pre-NFP Additions To Net Shorts In Most Contracts

US TSY FUTURES

Friday’s CFTC CoT report showed non-commercial net shorts being added across most Tsy futures contracts as of Tuesday April 2. Modest net long setting in TY futures provided the exception.

  • Non-commercial net shorts across the curve remain comfortably off the extremes seen over the last year, in both outright and % of OI terms.
  • A reminder that the strong ISM manufacturing survey was released on the Monday April 1 and would have factored heavily into the short setting seen in most contracts.
  • Elsewhere, the reaction to Wednesday’s soft ISM services survey will not be captured until next week’s data, with the same holding true for Friday’s NFP release. The latter triggered another round of hawkish Fed repricing.

Source: MNI - Market News/CFTC

MNI London Bureau | +44 0203-865-3809 | anthony.barton@marketnews.com
MNI London Bureau | +44 0203-865-3809 | anthony.barton@marketnews.com

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