{"id":16652,"date":"2010-07-12T06:58:12","date_gmt":"2010-07-12T10:58:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=16652"},"modified":"2010-07-12T06:58:12","modified_gmt":"2010-07-12T10:58:12","slug":"hedge-funds-bull-oil-bets-fall-to-15-month-low-energy-markets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/07\/2010\/hedge-funds-bull-oil-bets-fall-to-15-month-low-energy-markets.html","title":{"rendered":"Hedge Funds Bull Oil Bets Fall to 15-Month Low: Energy Markets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bloomberg &#8211; Hedge funds slashed bets that oil would  rise last week to the lowest level in more than a year just before crude  began its biggest advance since May.<\/p>\n<p>So-called long positions on the New York  Mercantile Exchange dropped 31 percent in the seven days ended July 6 to  the lowest level since April 2009, according to the weekly Commitment  of Traders report from the Commodity Futures Trading Commission. Oil  rose 5.5 percent on the Nymex last week, settling at $76.09 a barrel as  of July 9. It slipped 0.3 percent today to $75.89 a barrel at 6:30 a.m.  London time.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessweek.com\/news\/2010-07-12\/hedge-funds-bull-oil-bets-fall-to-15-month-low-energy-markets.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Read Complete Article<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bloomberg &#8211; Hedge funds slashed bets that oil would rise last week to the lowest level in more than a year just before crude began its biggest advance since May. So-called long positions on the New York Mercantile Exchange dropped [&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-16652","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16652","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=16652"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16652\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16653,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16652\/revisions\/16653"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}