{"id":14522,"date":"2010-03-11T09:56:27","date_gmt":"2010-03-11T13:56:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=14522"},"modified":"2010-03-11T09:56:27","modified_gmt":"2010-03-11T13:56:27","slug":"ecb%e2%80%99s-noyer-says-low-rates-fueling-hedge-fund-cds-speculation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/03\/2010\/ecb%e2%80%99s-noyer-says-low-rates-fueling-hedge-fund-cds-speculation.html","title":{"rendered":"ECB\u2019s Noyer Says Low Rates Fueling Hedge Fund CDS Speculation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BusinessWeek &#8211; European Central Bank council member Christian Noyer called for greater regulation of credit- default swaps, saying hedge funds are exploiting low interest rates to increase speculation with the securities, according to an interview in L\u2019Agefi newspaper.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIs it normal that hedge funds can take such large positions using significant leverage financed by central banks with particularly low interest rates? Obviously not,\u201d Noyer was quoted as saying in the interview confirmed by his office. \u201cWe the central banks aren\u2019t keeping rates low to permit hedge funds to take speculative positions in sovereign CDSs.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessweek.com\/news\/2010-03-10\/ecb-s-noyer-says-low-rates-fueling-hedge-fund-cds-speculation.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Read Complete Article<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BusinessWeek &#8211; European Central Bank council member Christian Noyer called for greater regulation of credit- default swaps, saying hedge funds are exploiting low interest rates to increase speculation with the securities, according to an interview in L\u2019Agefi newspaper. \u201cIs it [&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-14522","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14522","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=14522"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14522\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14523,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14522\/revisions\/14523"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}