{"id":17433,"date":"2010-08-27T08:27:41","date_gmt":"2010-08-27T12:27:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=17433"},"modified":"2010-08-27T08:27:41","modified_gmt":"2010-08-27T12:27:41","slug":"cocoas-drop-pressures-a-big-wager","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/08\/2010\/cocoas-drop-pressures-a-big-wager.html","title":{"rendered":"Cocoa&#8217;s Drop Pressures a Big Wager"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WSJ &#8211; Anthony Ward&#8217;s huge cocoa bet could be melting away.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Ward&#8217;s Armajaro Holdings Ltd. shook up the commodities market in July by buying a $1 billion cache of cocoa, enough to make 15 billion Hershey&#8217;s milk-chocolate bars. But since Mr. Ward made his audacious bet, cocoa prices have dropped 26%.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB10001424052748704913704575454011349605640.html\" target=\"_blank\">Read Complete Article<\/a><span style=\"font-weight: normal;\"> (subscription required)<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WSJ &#8211; Anthony Ward&#8217;s huge cocoa bet could be melting away. Mr. Ward&#8217;s Armajaro Holdings Ltd. shook up the commodities market in July by buying a $1 billion cache of cocoa, enough to make 15 billion Hershey&#8217;s milk-chocolate bars. But [&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-17433","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17433","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=17433"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17433\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17434,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17433\/revisions\/17434"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}