{"id":16378,"date":"2010-06-24T07:30:03","date_gmt":"2010-06-24T11:30:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=16378"},"modified":"2010-06-24T07:30:03","modified_gmt":"2010-06-24T11:30:03","slug":"senate-dems-eye-easing-volcker-rules-fund-limits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/06\/2010\/senate-dems-eye-easing-volcker-rules-fund-limits.html","title":{"rendered":"Senate Dems eye easing Volcker rule&#8217;s fund limits"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Reuters &#8211; The  Senate was moving on Wednesday to water down the controversial &#8220;Volcker  rule&#8221; on bank trading and investing as lawmakers raced to complete  landmark Wall Street reform legislation within days.<\/p>\n<p>In a potential victory for bank  lobbyists, banks would be allowed to invest up to 2 percent of total  Tier 1 capital in hedge funds and private equity funds, under a version  of the Volcker rule outlined in a document obtained by Reuters.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/idUSTRE65M6EB20100624\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Read Complete Article<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reuters &#8211; The Senate was moving on Wednesday to water down the controversial &#8220;Volcker rule&#8221; on bank trading and investing as lawmakers raced to complete landmark Wall Street reform legislation within days. In a potential victory for bank lobbyists, banks [&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-16378","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16378","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=16378"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16378\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16379,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16378\/revisions\/16379"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}