{"id":16062,"date":"2010-06-07T06:17:40","date_gmt":"2010-06-07T10:17:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=16062"},"modified":"2010-06-07T06:17:40","modified_gmt":"2010-06-07T10:17:40","slug":"bear-options-at-record-as-wien-says-stocks-to-rally","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/06\/2010\/bear-options-at-record-as-wien-says-stocks-to-rally.html","title":{"rendered":"Bear Options at Record as Wien Says Stocks to Rally"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bloomberg &#8211; Confidence in stocks is sinking to  record lows in the options market even with the U.S. economy poised for  its fastest growth in six years, a sign to Blackstone Group LP\u2019s Byron  Wien that it\u2019s time to buy.<\/p>\n<p>Contracts that pay off should the benchmark index  for U.S. stocks plunge more than 23 percent from its April high cost 75  percent more than those speculating on gains, the biggest premium ever,  according to data compiled by Bloomberg and OptionMetrics LLC. The  10-day average difference exceeded 50 percent 34 times since 1996. In  those cases, the Standard &amp; Poor\u2019s 500 Index gained a median 7.2  percent in six months.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessweek.com\/news\/2010-06-07\/bear-options-at-record-as-wien-says-stocks-to-rally-update1-.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Read Complete Article<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bloomberg &#8211; Confidence in stocks is sinking to record lows in the options market even with the U.S. economy poised for its fastest growth in six years, a sign to Blackstone Group LP\u2019s Byron Wien that it\u2019s time to buy. [&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-16062","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16062","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=16062"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16062\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16063,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16062\/revisions\/16063"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}