10 Year Treasuries:\u00a0<\/strong>Large trader and speculators reduced their bearish positions last week for 10-year treasury notes in the futures markets after pushing 10-year notes to their most bearish position of 2013 the previous week. 10-year treasury non-commercial contracts totaled a net position of -24,840 contracts in the data reported for August 20th. This is an improvement of +41,592 contracts from the previous week\u2019s total of -66,432 net contracts on August 13th. In the same time-frame, the yield on the 10 Year treasury note rose from 2.71 on Tuesday August 13th to 2.82 on Tuesday August 20th, according to US Treasury data.<\/p>\n Last 6<\/strong> Weeks of Large Trader Positions<\/strong><\/p>\n *COT explanation: The weekly cot report summarizes the total trader positions for open contracts in the futures trading markets. The CFTC<\/a> categorizes trader positions according to commercial hedgers (traders who use futures contracts for hedging as part of the business), non-commercials (large traders who speculate to realize trading profits) and nonreportable traders (usually small traders\/speculators).<\/p>\n
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\n Date<\/td>\n Net\u00a0Large\u00a0Specs<\/td>\n Weekly\u00a0Change<\/td>\n 10\u00a0Year\u00a0Yield<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n 07\/16\/2013<\/td>\n 17735<\/td>\n 64845<\/td>\n 2.55<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n 07\/23\/2013<\/td>\n -32312<\/td>\n -50047<\/td>\n 2.53<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n 07\/30\/2013<\/td>\n 11903<\/td>\n 44215<\/td>\n 2.63<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n 08\/06\/2013<\/td>\n -20096<\/td>\n -31999<\/td>\n 2.67<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n 08\/13\/2013<\/td>\n -66432<\/td>\n -46336<\/td>\n 2.71<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n 08\/20\/2013<\/td>\n -24840<\/td>\n 41592<\/td>\n 2.82<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n
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