{"id":15967,"date":"2010-06-01T06:10:52","date_gmt":"2010-06-01T10:10:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=15967"},"modified":"2010-06-01T06:10:52","modified_gmt":"2010-06-01T10:10:52","slug":"hedge-funds-post-biggest-monthly-losses-since-lehman-aftershock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/06\/2010\/hedge-funds-post-biggest-monthly-losses-since-lehman-aftershock.html","title":{"rendered":"Hedge Funds Post Biggest Monthly Losses Since Lehman Aftershock"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bloomberg &#8211; John Paulson, Louis Bacon and Andreas  Halvorsen navigated the global market turmoil of 2008 with little or no  damage. They weren\u2019t as successful last month as the Dow Jones  Industrial average had its worst May since 1940.<\/p>\n<p>Hedge funds lost an average of 2.7 percent  through May 27, according to the HFRX Global Hedge Fund Index, as the  sovereign debt crisis in Europe triggered declines in stocks, the euro  and commodities, and the gap in yields between U.S. short-term and  long-term debt narrowed. It was the biggest decline since November 2008,  when hedge funds lost 3 percent in the wake of Lehman Brothers Holdings  Inc.\u2019s bankruptcy two months earlier.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessweek.com\/news\/2010-05-31\/hedge-funds-post-biggest-monthly-losses-since-lehman-aftershock.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Read Complete Article<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bloomberg &#8211; John Paulson, Louis Bacon and Andreas Halvorsen navigated the global market turmoil of 2008 with little or no damage. They weren\u2019t as successful last month as the Dow Jones Industrial average had its worst May since 1940. Hedge [&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-15967","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15967","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=15967"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15967\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15969,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15967\/revisions\/15969"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}