{"id":24359,"date":"2011-08-30T07:38:36","date_gmt":"2011-08-30T11:38:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=24359"},"modified":"2011-08-30T07:38:36","modified_gmt":"2011-08-30T11:38:36","slug":"how-a-hedge-fund-reacts-to-a-hurricane-trade-weather-derivatives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/08\/2011\/how-a-hedge-fund-reacts-to-a-hurricane-trade-weather-derivatives.html","title":{"rendered":"How A Hedge Fund Reacts To A Hurricane: Trade Weather Derivatives!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Business Insider &#8211; While others were stockpiling water, flashlights, and board games in preparation for Hurricane Irene, the hedge fund Tudor Investment was crunching numbers.\u00a0Paul Tudor Jones&#8217; investment firm employs a weather derivatives analyst.<\/p>\n<p>Weather derivatives are fairly new, the first one traded in 1997 and the CME introduced the first exchange-traded weather futures contracts in 1999.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/tudor-investment-corp-reacts-to-hurricane-irene-trade-weather-derivatives-2011\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Read Complete Article<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Business Insider &#8211; While others were stockpiling water, flashlights, and board games in preparation for Hurricane Irene, the hedge fund Tudor Investment was crunching numbers.\u00a0Paul Tudor Jones&#8217; investment firm employs a weather derivatives analyst. Weather derivatives are fairly new, 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-24359","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24359","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=24359"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24359\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24360,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24359\/revisions\/24360"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}