{"id":14116,"date":"2010-02-15T08:56:58","date_gmt":"2010-02-15T12:56:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=14116"},"modified":"2010-02-15T08:56:58","modified_gmt":"2010-02-15T12:56:58","slug":"hedge-funds-turn-on-euro-stocks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/02\/2010\/hedge-funds-turn-on-euro-stocks.html","title":{"rendered":"Hedge funds turn on Euro stocks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Telegraph &#8211; A raft of European banks, healthcare companies and property firms have    attracted a sudden spike in &#8220;short positions&#8221; over the past two    weeks, according to figures from DataExplorers.<\/p>\n<p>Financial stocks, considered to be in the frontline in the event of a    full-blown attack on the euro, have been particularly targeted. Bolsas y    Mercados Espanoles (BME), the operator of the financial markets in Spain, is    showing a short position worth nearly 7pc of its \u20ac1.7bn market value,    suggesting that traders are betting nearly \u20ac120m that its share price will    fall. Spanish banks Banco de Sabadell and Banco de Valencia are also being    shorted by hedge funds.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/finance\/newsbysector\/banksandfinance\/7230777\/Hedge-funds-turn-on-Euro-stocks.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Read Complete Article<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Telegraph &#8211; A raft of European banks, healthcare companies and property firms have attracted a sudden spike in &#8220;short positions&#8221; over the past two weeks, according to figures from DataExplorers. Financial stocks, considered to be in the frontline in the [&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":[],"class_list":["post-14116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14116","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=14116"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14116\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14118,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14116\/revisions\/14118"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}