{"id":24295,"date":"2011-08-25T06:41:37","date_gmt":"2011-08-25T10:41:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=24295"},"modified":"2011-08-25T06:41:37","modified_gmt":"2011-08-25T10:41:37","slug":"hedge-fund-bets-on-sp-500-most-bearish-since-2008-socgen-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/08\/2011\/hedge-fund-bets-on-sp-500-most-bearish-since-2008-socgen-says.html","title":{"rendered":"Hedge Fund Bets on S&#038;P 500 Most Bearish Since 2008, SocGen Says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>San Francisco Chronicle &#8211; Hedge funds&#8217; bearish bets against the Standard &amp; Poor&#8217;s 500 Index increased to the highest level since 2008 after this month&#8217;s stock slump raised concern that economic growth is slowing, Societe Generale SA analysts said.<\/p>\n<p>The funds and other traders hold a net 71,000 futures contracts wagering that the S&amp;P 500 will decrease in value, Societe Generale analysts led by Alain Bokobza wrote in a note to clients today. The short position is the highest since 2008, when Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc.&#8217;s bankruptcy triggered a global credit crisis, the analysts said.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/cgi-bin\/article.cgi?f=\/g\/a\/2011\/08\/24\/bloomberg1376-P9ORCRQ0NMHJNNM0M_NMLENF-20110824235657-6VQ6VG1IH8LIK1FHHKPAL9021J.DTL\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Read Complete Article<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>San Francisco Chronicle &#8211; Hedge funds&#8217; bearish bets against the Standard &amp; Poor&#8217;s 500 Index increased to the highest level since 2008 after this month&#8217;s stock slump raised concern that economic growth is slowing, Societe Generale SA analysts said. The [&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-24295","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24295","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=24295"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24295\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24296,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24295\/revisions\/24296"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}