Inside the week that shook the US Treasury market

Rates traders on the “scary” moves that almost broke the world’s safest and most liquid investment

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US Treasury dealers were close to hitting the panic button on the morning of Wednesday, April 9.

A poorly received three-year note auction the previous day had raised serious questions about whether US Treasuries could provide a safe haven from the potential fallout of an escalating global trade war. Investors began dumping Treasuries at a rate that threatened to overwhelm dealer capacity. The big concern was that if a crucial 10-year note auction that afternoon went badly, it could send the

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