{"id":17145,"date":"2010-08-09T07:15:58","date_gmt":"2010-08-09T11:15:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=17145"},"modified":"2010-08-09T07:15:58","modified_gmt":"2010-08-09T11:15:58","slug":"icahn-wagered-1-billion-on-energy-stocks-during-bp-oil-spill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/08\/2010\/icahn-wagered-1-billion-on-energy-stocks-during-bp-oil-spill.html","title":{"rendered":"Icahn Wagered $1 Billion on Energy Stocks During BP Oil Spill"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bloomberg &#8211; Financier Carl Icahn disclosed that his hedge funds invested almost $1 billion in energy stocks during the second quarter as they were pummeled by declining crude prices and the worst oil spill in U.S. history.<\/p>\n<p>Icahn plowed about $929 million into energy stocks in the period, bringing the total to 18 percent of the hedge-fund group\u2019s stock investments, according to a regulatory filing last week. The energy bet helped the funds record an 8 percent gain July, when oil stocks rebounded, Icahn\u2019s holding company said in an Aug. 4 statement.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/2010-08-09\/icahn-hedge-funds-wagered-1-billion-on-energy-stocks-during-bp-oil-spill.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Read Complete Article<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bloomberg &#8211; Financier Carl Icahn disclosed that his hedge funds invested almost $1 billion in energy stocks during the second quarter as they were pummeled by declining crude prices and the worst oil spill in U.S. history. Icahn plowed about [&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-17145","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17145","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=17145"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17145\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17146,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17145\/revisions\/17146"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}