{"id":21204,"date":"2011-03-15T04:48:22","date_gmt":"2011-03-15T08:48:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=21204"},"modified":"2011-03-15T04:48:22","modified_gmt":"2011-03-15T08:48:22","slug":"japan-hedge-funds-lead-worst-2-day-stock-rout-since-87","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/03\/2011\/japan-hedge-funds-lead-worst-2-day-stock-rout-since-87.html","title":{"rendered":"Japan Hedge funds lead worst 2-day stock rout since &#8217;87"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Reuters &#8211; Japanese stocks plunged 10.6\u00a0percent on Tuesday, posting the worst two-day losing streak\u00a0since 1987, on reports of rising radiation near Tokyo,\u00a0suggesting any deterioration at a quake-hit nuclear plant could\u00a0trigger more panic selling led by hedge funds.<\/p>\n<p>The yen tripped on talk of intervention and bond yields rose\u00a0as investors sold debt to offset losses in the stock market. The\u00a0scale and speed of the equity selloff, on record volume for a\u00a0second day running, forced fund managers to sit on the<br \/>\nsidelines.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/2011\/03\/15\/japan-quake-markets-idUSL3E7EF0US20110315\" target=\"_blank\">Read Complete Article<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reuters &#8211; Japanese stocks plunged 10.6\u00a0percent on Tuesday, posting the worst two-day losing streak\u00a0since 1987, on reports of rising radiation near Tokyo,\u00a0suggesting any deterioration at a quake-hit nuclear plant could\u00a0trigger more panic selling led by hedge funds. The yen tripped [&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-21204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21204","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=21204"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21204\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21206,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21204\/revisions\/21206"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}