{"id":16999,"date":"2010-08-02T07:09:14","date_gmt":"2010-08-02T11:09:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=16999"},"modified":"2010-08-02T07:09:14","modified_gmt":"2010-08-02T11:09:14","slug":"funds-bullish-on-natural-gas-as-heat-wave-strikes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/08\/2010\/funds-bullish-on-natural-gas-as-heat-wave-strikes.html","title":{"rendered":"Funds Bullish on Natural Gas as Heat Wave Strikes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NYT &#8211; With the mercury rising \u2014 along with an increase in air-conditioning  demand \u2014 hedge funds last week upped the ante on natural gas prices  believing they will rise for the first time in six weeks, Bloomberg News  reported.<\/p>\n<p>Natural gas climbed every day last week, to advance 7.9 percent, to  $4.923 per million British thermal units on the New York Mercantile Exchange, the news agency said. Hedge  funds and other large speculators increased their already bullish bets  by 14 percent the week ended July 27, according to a report by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/dealbook.blogs.nytimes.com\/2010\/08\/02\/funds-bullish-on-natural-gas-as-heat-wave-strikes\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Read Complete Article<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NYT &#8211; With the mercury rising \u2014 along with an increase in air-conditioning demand \u2014 hedge funds last week upped the ante on natural gas prices believing they will rise for the first time in six weeks, Bloomberg News reported. [&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-16999","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16999","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=16999"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16999\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17000,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16999\/revisions\/17000"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16999"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16999"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16999"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}