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U.S. Treasury net shorts decrease in latest week - CFTC

          NEW YORK, Nov 28 (Reuters) - Speculators' net bearish
bets on U.S. Treasury note futures decreased in the latest week,
according to Commodity Futures Trading Commission data released
on Monday.
    The amount of speculators' bearish, or short, positions in
two-year Treasury futures exceeded bullish, or
long, positions by 566,995 contracts on Nov. 22, according to
the CFTC's latest Commitments of Traders data.
    Net shorts on those futures had gone up to their highest
since at least 1990 as of the prior week ended on Nov. 15.
    Speculators trimmed bearish bets on other maturities too,
with 10-year note futures' net shorts down to
321,256 contracts from 343,021 a week earlier.
    Below is a table of the speculative positions in Treasury
futures on the Chicago Board of Trade and in Eurodollar futures
on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange in the latest week:
 U.S. 2-year T-notes (Contracts of $200,000)
        22 Nov 2022       Prior week
        week
 Long         168,580        146,333
 Short        735,575        732,603
 Net         -566,995       -586,270
 U.S. 5-year T-notes (Contracts of $100,000)
        22 Nov 2022       Prior week
        week
 Long         334,470        309,373
 Short        858,124        856,991
 Net         -523,654       -547,618
 U.S. 10-year T-notes (Contracts of $100,000)
        22 Nov 2022       Prior week
        week
 Long         473,384        472,288
 Short        794,640        815,309
 Net         -321,256       -343,021
 U.S. T-bonds (Contracts of $100,000)
        22 Nov 2022       Prior week
        week
 Long          60,382         57,233
 Short        150,866        154,914
 Net          -90,484        -97,681
 U.S. Ultra T-bonds (Contracts of $100,000)
        22 Nov 2022       Prior week
        week
 Long          76,599         94,540
 Short        453,610        472,248
 Net         -377,011       -377,708
 Eurodollar (Contracts of $1,000,000)
        15 Nov 2022       Prior week
        week
 Long         559,946        487,273
 Short      2,526,877      2,599,923
 Net       -1,966,931     -2,112,650
 Fed funds (Contracts of $1,000,000)
        22 Nov 2022       Prior week
        week
 Long         196,688        149,424
 Short        185,515        175,978
 Net           11,173        -26,554
 (Reporting by Davide Barbuscia; Editing by Lisa Shumaker)

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