{"id":11283,"date":"2009-08-19T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-08-19T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T04:00:00","slug":"hedge-funds-build-up-short-bets-on-vw-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/08\/2009\/hedge-funds-build-up-short-bets-on-vw-again.html","title":{"rendered":"Hedge funds build up short bets on VW again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Reuters UK &#8211; Hedge funds have increased their bets on a fall in voting shares in Europe&#8217;s biggest carmaker Volkswagen, according to data on Tuesday, despite the heavy losses suffered by such funds last year.       <\/p>\n<p>Hedge funds shorting VW  were caught out in October when VW shares more than quadrupled after Porsche announced it had effective control of 74.1 percent of VW.<\/p>\n<p>This left less than 6 percent tradeable in the market and saw funds scrambling to cover their positions.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/news_land.php?i=http:\/\/uk.reuters.com\/article\/idUKLNE57I00M20090819?FORM=ZZNR3\">Read Complete Article<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reuters UK &#8211; Hedge funds have increased their bets on a fall in voting shares in Europe&#8217;s biggest carmaker Volkswagen, according to data on Tuesday, despite the heavy losses suffered by such funds last year. Hedge funds shorting VW were [&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":[82,15413,5309,4586,11708,7543,4326,7544,15414],"class_list":["post-11283","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated","tag-bets","tag-effective-control","tag-europe","tag-heavy-losses","tag-hedge-funds","tag-porsche","tag-reuters","tag-volkswagen","tag-vw"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11283","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=11283"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11283\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}