Trump decides he's not going to let the decades - long rape of America continue and starts tariffs on certain countries to right the wrongs, and those countries are pissed their gravy train has stalled on the tracks so they hit back, not just with tariffs but with attempted currency collapse.
As Trade Wars began, the rest of the world dumped more Treasuries in April than in any month since January 2016.
Hedge funds were buyers (as implied by the rise in holdings from the Cayman Islands)...they added $15,2 billion in April - the most ever.
But the biggest selling culprit was not "good friend" China who saw a small $5.799bn reduction in its Treasury holdings in April...
And while "Great ally" Japan did dump Treasuries for the 8th month in the last 9 to it lowest holdings since Oct 2011...
It was Vladimir Putin that decided to puke the most US Treasuries out of Russia ever, liquidating half, or $47.4 billion, of its US Treasuries in one month, to its lowest holdings since March 2008!
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-...blew-out-april
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