Leveraged hedge funds and non-commercial traders significantly reduced their net short positions on US 10-year Treasury futures to their lowest levels since early July, according to a report by Reuters.

The report cites the latest data from the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) as showing that in the week ending 14 January, hedge funds cut their net shorts to 1,267,611 contracts, marking a six-month low.

Non-commercial traders, meanwhile, who are speculative market participants with no direct business interest in the futures contracts, also reduced their net short positions to 567,935 contracts.