{"id":12238,"date":"2009-09-30T05:50:38","date_gmt":"2009-09-30T09:50:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=12238"},"modified":"2009-09-30T05:56:26","modified_gmt":"2009-09-30T09:56:26","slug":"hedge-funds-find-new-sweet-spot-in-sugar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/09\/2009\/hedge-funds-find-new-sweet-spot-in-sugar.html","title":{"rendered":"Hedge funds find new sweet spot in sugar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New York Post &#8211; Sugar is the new crude oil for investment-hungry hedge funds, which are pushing sugar prices near 30-year highs and ushering new global shortages.<\/p>\n<p>After their infamous and massive bets on crude oil sent prices doubling and brought $5-a-gallon gasoline a year ago, hedge funds are now pouring their billions into raw sugar.<\/p>\n<p>Sugar prices have doubled since springtime, causing US officials to consider lifting tariff barriers so that more imported sugar can reach food and candy makers.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Read Complete Article\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nypost.com\/p\/news\/business\/hedge_funds_find_new_sweet_spot_3hmeS0PQb2ndATma3uswIL\" target=\"_blank\">Read Complete Article<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New York Post &#8211; Sugar is the new crude oil for investment-hungry hedge funds, which are pushing sugar prices near 30-year highs and ushering new global shortages. After their infamous and massive bets on crude oil sent prices doubling and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[11708],"class_list":["post-12238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated","tag-hedge-funds"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12238","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12238"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12238\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12240,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12238\/revisions\/12240"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}