{"id":20879,"date":"2011-02-28T05:45:54","date_gmt":"2011-02-28T10:45:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=20879"},"modified":"2011-02-28T05:45:54","modified_gmt":"2011-02-28T10:45:54","slug":"bullish-gold-bets-rebound-in-february-as-mideast-tensions-mount","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/02\/2011\/bullish-gold-bets-rebound-in-february-as-mideast-tensions-mount.html","title":{"rendered":"Bullish Gold Bets Rebound in February as Mideast Tensions Mount"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bloomberg &#8211; Hedge funds boosted their bullish bets on gold to the highest since December, when the precious metal was headed to a record price, as tensions in the Middle East spurred investor demand for a haven.<\/p>\n<p>Managed-money funds held net-long positions, or wagers on rising prices, totaling 182,739 futures and options contracts on the Comex as of Feb. 22, up 14 percent from a week earlier, U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission data showed last week. Holdings rose for a third straight week and are the highest since Dec. 7, the day gold reached a record $1,432.50 an ounce.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessweek.com\/news\/2011-02-28\/bullish-gold-bets-rebound-in-february-as-mideast-tensions-mount.html\" target=\"_blank\">Read Complete Article<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bloomberg &#8211; Hedge funds boosted their bullish bets on gold to the highest since December, when the precious metal was headed to a record price, as tensions in the Middle East spurred investor demand for a haven. Managed-money funds held [&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-20879","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20879","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=20879"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20879\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20880,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20879\/revisions\/20880"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}