NEW YORK / Bloomberg Hedge funds are the most bullish on Treasury benchmark 10-year notes in two years, as U.S. government securities head for a second straight monthly gain. Large speculators including hedge funds boosted their positions in Treasury 10-year futures to a net 84,659 contracts as of Feb. 23, according to the latest data from the Commodity Futures Trading ...

Bloomberg Brazil analysts reduced their 2016 inflation forecast by the most in nearly eight months as the economy sinks into a deeper recession. Economists lowered their 2016 inflation forecast 5 basis points to 7.57 percent, the first cut in nine weeks, according to the weekly Focus survey conducted on Feb. 26. They also forecast the monetary authority will lower its ...

BLOOMBERG Latin America’s policy makers are finding out they can’t fight the market. Colombia saw its peso rise last Monday after announcing a mix of currency, fiscal, and monetary measures, only for it to succumb to an emerging-market selloff later in the week. Argentina’s dollar sales failed to stop the peso falling every other day last week, and investors say ...