As Trade Wars began, the rest of the world dumped more Treasuries in April than in any month since January 2016…
Hedge funds were buyers (as implied by the rise in holdings from the Cayman Islands)…they added $15,2 billion in April – the most ever…
But the biggest selling culprit was not “good friend” China who saw a small $5.799bn reduction in its Treasury holdings in April…
And while “Great ally” Japan did dump Treasuries for the 8th month in the last 9 to it lowest holdings since Oct 2011…
It was Vladimir Putin that decided to puke the most US Treasuries out of Russia ever – dumping a massive $47.4 billion to its lowest total holdings since March 2008.
Put another way – Russia just liquidated half its US Treasury holdings in one month!
And what happened in April?
Mystery solved! Russia was dumping half of everything it had and yields on the 10Y only rose 35bps.
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