{"id":11066,"date":"2009-07-20T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-07-20T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T04:00:00","slug":"shorting-not-good-bet-for-hedge-funds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/07\/2009\/shorting-not-good-bet-for-hedge-funds.html","title":{"rendered":"Shorting not good bet for hedge funds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Gulf News &#8211; Short-selling, one of the few tactics that made money for hedge funds in 2008, has become a risky bet as prospects for equities have improved, while getting hold of stock to sell is harder as lenders shun weak funds. <\/p>\n<p>Some hedge funds have already changed tactics and are simply buying cheap stocks, wary of getting burnt if a stock they are shorting announces unexpectedly good earnings and the share price spikes &#8211; a real possibility in an improving economy.<\/p>\n<p>High-profile hedge fund manager Philippe Jabre said he had no short positions because it was &quot;too dangerous&quot;, although in future shorting could prove a better trade. <\/p>\n<p><strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/news_land.php?i=http:\/\/www.gulfnews.com\/business\/Markets\/10332941.html?FORM=ZZNR6\">Read Complete Article<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gulf News &#8211; Short-selling, one of the few tactics that made money for hedge funds in 2008, has become a risky bet as prospects for equities have improved, while getting hold of stock to sell is harder as lenders shun [&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":[8506,14371,1055,4602,14372,11708,37,7726,48,14369,14370,6030,4845,336],"class_list":["post-11066","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated","tag-bet","tag-cheap-stocks","tag-earnings","tag-economy","tag-gulf-news","tag-hedge-funds","tag-hedge-fund-manager","tag-lenders","tag-money","tag-philippe-jabre","tag-price-spikes","tag-prospects","tag-share-price","tag-stock"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11066","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=11066"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11066\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}