{"id":10075,"date":"2009-03-11T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-03-11T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T04:00:00","slug":"hedge-fund-takes-hsbc-short-position","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/03\/2009\/hedge-fund-takes-hsbc-short-position.html","title":{"rendered":"Hedge fund takes HSBC short position"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Reuters &#8211; U.S. hedge fund Harbinger Capital is the first company to declare a short position in HSBC following the bank&#8217;s record rights issue, after making millions from a similar tactic with UK bank HBOS last year. <\/p>\n<p>Harbinger said in a regulatory filing it has taken a 0.26 percent short position in HSBC&#8217;s London shares, worth about 110 million pounds. By 0910 GMT the shares were up 2.5 percent at 356 pence.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/news_land.php?i=http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/hedgeFundsNews\/idUSLNE52901O20090310\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Read Complete Article<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reuters &#8211; U.S. hedge fund Harbinger Capital is the first company to declare a short position in HSBC following the bank&#8217;s record rights issue, after making millions from a similar tactic with UK bank HBOS last year. Harbinger said in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[108,2945,752,2231,8766,3170,4326,6017,8768],"class_list":["post-10075","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated","tag-harbinger","tag-harbinger-capital","tag-hbos","tag-hsbc","tag-london-shares","tag-pence","tag-reuters","tag-short-position","tag-tactic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10075","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10075"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10075\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10075"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10075"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10075"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}