{"id":22799,"date":"2011-06-01T07:12:40","date_gmt":"2011-06-01T11:12:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=22799"},"modified":"2011-06-01T07:12:40","modified_gmt":"2011-06-01T11:12:40","slug":"hedge-funds-bail-out-as-4-gasoline-cuts-demand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/06\/2011\/hedge-funds-bail-out-as-4-gasoline-cuts-demand.html","title":{"rendered":"Hedge funds bail out as $4 gasoline cuts demand"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NT &#8211; Hedge funds cut bullish gasoline bets to an eight-month low after retail prices approached the highest level since 2008, curbing demand before the summer driving season began with the Memorial Day\u00a0weekend.<\/p>\n<p>The funds and other large speculators reduced net-long positions, or wagers on rising prices, 9.8 percent in the seven days ended May 24, according to the\u00a0Commodity Futures Trading Commission&#8217;s weekly Commitments of Traders report. It was the lowest level since the seven days ended Sept. 28. The net positions dropped 24 percent since May\u00a03.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newstimes.com\/news\/article\/Hedge-funds-bail-out-as-4-gasoline-cuts-demand-1403788.php\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Read Complete Article<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NT &#8211; Hedge funds cut bullish gasoline bets to an eight-month low after retail prices approached the highest level since 2008, curbing demand before the summer driving season began with the Memorial Day\u00a0weekend. The funds and other large speculators reduced [&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-22799","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22799","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=22799"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22799\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22800,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22799\/revisions\/22800"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}