{"id":11294,"date":"2009-08-20T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-08-20T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T04:00:00","slug":"hedge-fund-bets-millions-natural-gas-price-will-rise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/08\/2009\/hedge-fund-bets-millions-natural-gas-price-will-rise.html","title":{"rendered":"Hedge Fund Bets Millions Natural Gas Price Will Rise"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bloomberg &#8211; A hedge fund, whose name isn&#8217;t  disclosed, has placed a large bet that natural gas prices will  triple by the Northern Hemisphere winter just as the price of  the commodity slides to a seven-year low, the Financial Times  reported, which cited New York Mercantile Exchange traders.             <\/p>\n<p>Last week, the fund spent millions for the right to buy  U.S. natural gas at $10 per million British thermal units in  January and February, up from yesterday&#8217;s spot level of just  above $3 per mBtu, according to the report.     <\/p>\n<p><strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/apps\/news?pid=20601207&#038;sid=a6HDG2kIyrm4&#038;FORM=ZZNR7\" title=\"Read Complete Article\">Read Complete Article<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bloomberg &#8211; A hedge fund, whose name isn&#8217;t disclosed, has placed a large bet that natural gas prices will triple by the Northern Hemisphere winter just as the price of the commodity slides to a seven-year low, the Financial Times [&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":[8506,3180,15457,4416,11148,15458,2869,5065,672,15456,15459,2014],"class_list":["post-11294","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated","tag-bet","tag-commodity","tag-exchange-traders","tag-financial-times","tag-hedge-fund","tag-mbtu","tag-natural-gas-prices","tag-new-york-mercantile-exchange","tag-new-york-mercantile","tag-northern-hemisphere-winter","tag-slides","tag-york-mercantile-exchange"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11294","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=11294"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11294\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}