{"id":19636,"date":"2010-12-29T07:33:13","date_gmt":"2010-12-29T11:33:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=19636"},"modified":"2010-12-29T07:33:13","modified_gmt":"2010-12-29T11:33:13","slug":"hedge-funds-bet-gas-will-fall-in-warm-new-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/12\/2010\/hedge-funds-bet-gas-will-fall-in-warm-new-year.html","title":{"rendered":"Hedge Funds Bet Gas Will Fall in Warm New Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bloomberg &#8211; Hedge funds raised bearish natural gas bets by the most since October on forecasts that higher- than-normal temperatures in the first weeks of the New Year will reduce demand for the heating fuel.<\/p>\n<p>The funds and other large speculators cut net-long positions, or wagers on rising prices, by 35 percent in the seven days ended Dec. 21, according to the Commodity Futures Trading Commission\u2019s weekly Commitments of Traders report. It was the largest drop since Oct. 12.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessweek.com\/news\/2010-12-29\/hedge-funds-bet-gas-will-fall-in-warm-new-year-energy-markets.html\" target=\"_blank\">Read Complete Article<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bloomberg &#8211; Hedge funds raised bearish natural gas bets by the most since October on forecasts that higher- than-normal temperatures in the first weeks of the New Year will reduce demand for the heating fuel. The funds and other large [&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-19636","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19636","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=19636"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19636\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19637,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19636\/revisions\/19637"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}