{"id":14197,"date":"2010-02-19T10:18:40","date_gmt":"2010-02-19T14:18:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=14197"},"modified":"2010-02-19T10:18:40","modified_gmt":"2010-02-19T14:18:40","slug":"hedge-funds-raise-bets-in-greek-bond-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/02\/2010\/hedge-funds-raise-bets-in-greek-bond-crisis.html","title":{"rendered":"Hedge funds raise bets in Greek bond crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Reuters &#8211; Hedge funds have increased their bets this month on Greece&#8217;s economic woes by shorting its bonds or buying default protection, although anecdotal evidence suggests some have cashed in after recent gains.<\/p>\n<p>Even hedge funds without direct exposure to Greece have been insulating their portfolios against collateral damage in the currency or credit markets, as concerns over Greece&#8217;s ability to service its heavy debt have grown.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There&#8217;s been a lot of interest in sovereign risk, we&#8217;ve just had a client call now,&#8221; said one prime brokerage executive who declined to be named.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/idUSTRE61I2J820100219\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Read Complete Article<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reuters &#8211; Hedge funds have increased their bets this month on Greece&#8217;s economic woes by shorting its bonds or buying default protection, although anecdotal evidence suggests some have cashed in after recent gains. Even hedge funds without direct exposure to [&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-14197","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14197","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=14197"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14197\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14198,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14197\/revisions\/14198"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}