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Experts Urge Fed to Act on Hedge Fund Risks

3/27/2025

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Financial experts urge the Federal Reserve to implement an emergency program to tackle risky hedge-fund trades amid turmoil in the $29 trillion US Treasuries market. They caution that unwinding $1 trillion in hedge fund positions could trigger widespread instability, echoing the Fed's decisive $1.6 trillion intervention during the crisis of March 2020.

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Financial experts urge the Federal Reserve to implement an emergency program to tackle risky hedge-fund trades amid turmoil in the $29 trillion US Treasuries market. They caution that unwinding $1 trillion in hedge fund positions could trigger widespread instability, echoing the Fed's decisive $1.6 trillion intervention during the crisis of March 2020.