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Before US Rate Bets Wiped Out Billions, Warnings Were Ignored in Chile

Bloomberg Markets Thursday 15 October 2026, 17:33 UTC By Carolina Gonzalez and Valentina Fuentes 1 min read
Key Points

It was a desperate appeal to regulators: Step in, they were urged, and put a stop to this reckless behavior. It came as Chilean pension funds were making outsized bets on US interest rates, more than a year before a painful blowup left them billions of dollars in the red.

It was a desperate appeal to regulators: Step in, they were urged, and put a stop to this reckless behavior. It came as Chilean pension funds were making outsized bets on US interest rates, more than a year before a painful blowup left them billions of dollars in the red.
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