{"id":22931,"date":"2011-06-09T08:12:48","date_gmt":"2011-06-09T12:12:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=22931"},"modified":"2011-06-09T08:12:48","modified_gmt":"2011-06-09T12:12:48","slug":"burbank-contrarian-bets-on-saudis-show-why-oil-reality-helps-return-23-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/06\/2011\/burbank-contrarian-bets-on-saudis-show-why-oil-reality-helps-return-23-6.html","title":{"rendered":"Burbank Contrarian Bets on Saudis Show Why Oil Reality Helps Return 23.6%"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bloomberg &#8211; As a hedge-fund manager who thrives on turbulence in the commodities markets, John Burbank couldn\u2019t have done better than the first week of May.<\/p>\n<p>The prices of oil, metals and other raw materials nose- dived the most in two years as investors retreated from emerging markets amid surging inflation in\u00a0China and\u00a0India and political upheaval sweeping through the Middle East and North Africa. For Burbank, the founder and chief investment officer of San Francisco-based Passport Capital LLC, the sell-off is an opportunity. He\u2019s looking to add to the heavy bets he\u2019s made in the frontier market of\u00a0Saudi Arabia, Bloomberg Markets magazine reports in its July issue.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/2011-06-08\/burbank-contrarian-saudi-bets-shows-why-oil-helps-return-23-6-.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Read Complete Article<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bloomberg &#8211; As a hedge-fund manager who thrives on turbulence in the commodities markets, John Burbank couldn\u2019t have done better than the first week of May. The prices of oil, metals and other raw materials nose- dived the most in [&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-22931","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22931","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=22931"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22931\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22932,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22931\/revisions\/22932"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}