{"id":20114,"date":"2011-01-24T08:32:34","date_gmt":"2011-01-24T12:32:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=20114"},"modified":"2011-01-24T08:32:34","modified_gmt":"2011-01-24T12:32:34","slug":"bullish-gold-bets-by-funds-slump-on-worst-price-slide-since-1997","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/01\/2011\/bullish-gold-bets-by-funds-slump-on-worst-price-slide-since-1997.html","title":{"rendered":"Bullish Gold Bets by Funds Slump on Worst Price Slide Since 1997"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bloomberg &#8211; Hedge funds are unloading bullish bets on gold as a slide in prices sends the metal to its worst start to a year since 1997. Holdings in silver dropped to the lowest since February.<\/p>\n<p>Managed-money funds held net-long positions, or wagers on rising prices, totaling 134,473 contracts on the Comex in New York as of Jan. 18, U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission data showed on Jan. 21.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessweek.com\/news\/2011-01-24\/bullish-gold-bets-by-funds-slump-on-worst-price-slide-since-1997.html\" target=\"_blank\">Read Complete Article<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bloomberg &#8211; Hedge funds are unloading bullish bets on gold as a slide in prices sends the metal to its worst start to a year since 1997. Holdings in silver dropped to the lowest since February. Managed-money funds held net-long [&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-20114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20114","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=20114"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20114\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20115,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20114\/revisions\/20115"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}