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Trendy debt, currency trades unravel

Published Fri, Dec 4, 2015 · 09:50 PM

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New York

THE most crowded trades in global debt and currency markets unravelled on Thursday, and it wasn't pretty.

After months of betting on diverging monetary policies in the US and Europe, investors got whipsawed after the European Central Bank said it would keep the size of its monthly asset purchases unchanged, even though it committed to extending quantitative easing by six months.

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