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Investor positioning may be one factor behind the fall in yields

Changes in investor positioning may help to explain some of the decline in 10-year US Treasury yields recently, as a large speculative net short position had built up in Q1. But we still think that the broader backdrop points to yields rising gradually over the next few years.

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