{"id":15799,"date":"2010-05-24T06:52:42","date_gmt":"2010-05-24T10:52:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=15799"},"modified":"2010-05-24T06:52:42","modified_gmt":"2010-05-24T10:52:42","slug":"hedge-funds-sell-crude-fastest-in-eight-months-energy-markets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/05\/2010\/hedge-funds-sell-crude-fastest-in-eight-months-energy-markets.html","title":{"rendered":"Hedge Funds Sell Crude Fastest in Eight Months: Energy Markets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BusinessWeek &#8211; Hedge funds sold oil at the fastest pace in almost  eight months, cutting their bullish bets by 32 percent as crude prices  plunged on concern Europe\u2019s debt crisis will hurt energy demand.<\/p>\n<p>The speculative net-long position in crude oil  futures and options combined on the New York Mercantile Exchange fell to  89,335 in the week ended May 18, the biggest percentage decline since  Sept. 29, according to the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission\u2019s  Commitments of Traders Report on May 21.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessweek.com\/news\/2010-05-23\/hedge-funds-sell-crude-fastest-in-eight-months-energy-markets.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Read Complete Article<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BusinessWeek &#8211; Hedge funds sold oil at the fastest pace in almost eight months, cutting their bullish bets by 32 percent as crude prices plunged on concern Europe\u2019s debt crisis will hurt energy demand. The speculative net-long position in crude [&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-15799","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15799","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=15799"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15799\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15800,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15799\/revisions\/15800"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}