{"id":20010,"date":"2011-01-18T08:31:29","date_gmt":"2011-01-18T12:31:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=20010"},"modified":"2011-01-18T08:31:29","modified_gmt":"2011-01-18T12:31:29","slug":"top-hedge-fund-said-to-have-taken-short-position-in-barclays","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/01\/2011\/top-hedge-fund-said-to-have-taken-short-position-in-barclays.html","title":{"rendered":"Top Hedge Fund Said To Have Taken Short Position In Barclays"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here Is The City &#8211; The Telegraph reports that DE Shaw, one of the world&#8217;s largest hedge funds, has taken an almost $159m short position in Barclays Bank, emphasising growing concerns that UK banks are facing headwinds operating in a tougher regulatory and economic climate.<\/p>\n<p>In the meantime, Bloomberg reports that Bank of America Merrill Lynch is to rebuild its investment banking platform in Europe, after losing around 30 senior M&amp;A professionals over the last 2 years. According to\u00a0data from research firm\u00a0Freeman &amp; Co, the firm is currently down in 11th place in the\u00a0European M&amp;A rankings.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/news.hereisthecity.com\/news\/business_news\/12150.cntns\" target=\"_blank\">Read Complete Article<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here Is The City &#8211; The Telegraph reports that DE Shaw, one of the world&#8217;s largest hedge funds, has taken an almost $159m short position in Barclays Bank, emphasising growing concerns that UK banks are facing headwinds operating in a [&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-20010","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20010","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=20010"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20010\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20012,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20010\/revisions\/20012"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20010"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20010"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20010"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}