{"id":21216,"date":"2011-03-15T09:28:35","date_gmt":"2011-03-15T13:28:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=21216"},"modified":"2011-03-15T09:28:35","modified_gmt":"2011-03-15T13:28:35","slug":"japanese-market-plummets-20-in-2-days-on-radiation-threat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/03\/2011\/japanese-market-plummets-20-in-2-days-on-radiation-threat.html","title":{"rendered":"Japanese Market Plummets 20% in 2 Days on Radiation Threat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Business\u00a0Insider &#8211; Traders in Tokyo and Hong Kong said hedge fund selling of Nikkei futures, especially the Singapore-listed contracts , was behind the deepest drop in Japanese shares. Cash volumes on the Tokyo Stock Exchange hit a record for a second day running.<\/p>\n<p>These equity sales were triggered by the explosion of a fourth nuclear reactor 130 miles away from the city, leaking lethal amounts of radiation.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/japanese-market-plummets-20-in-2-days-on-radiation-threat-2011-3\" target=\"_blank\">Read Complete Article<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Business\u00a0Insider &#8211; Traders in Tokyo and Hong Kong said hedge fund selling of Nikkei futures, especially the Singapore-listed contracts , was behind the deepest drop in Japanese shares. Cash volumes on the Tokyo Stock Exchange hit a record for 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-21216","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21216","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=21216"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21216\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21218,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21216\/revisions\/21218"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}