{"id":24980,"date":"2011-09-28T08:19:16","date_gmt":"2011-09-28T12:19:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=24980"},"modified":"2011-09-28T08:20:02","modified_gmt":"2011-09-28T12:20:02","slug":"chart-of-the-day-hedge-funds-cut-leverage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/09\/2011\/chart-of-the-day-hedge-funds-cut-leverage.html","title":{"rendered":"Chart of the day: Hedge funds cut leverage"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div>Dow Jones &#8211; Hedge fund leverage, as measured by margin debt on the New York Stock Exchange, declined in August by the most in a single month since November 2008, as managers cut their exposure to the markets amidst a backdrop of global market sell-offs and risk aversion, according to Bank of America Merrill Lynch&#8217;s weekly hedge fund trade monitor.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Chart 1: % change in NYSE margin debt \" src=\"http:\/\/www.efinancialnews.com\/share\/media\/images\/2011\/09\/4069283114_c300,200,50,50,100.gif\" alt=\"Chart 1: % change in NYSE margin debt \" \/>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.efinancialnews.com\/story\/2011-09-27\/hedge-funds-cut-leverage\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Read Complete Article<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dow Jones &#8211; Hedge fund leverage, as measured by margin debt on the New York Stock Exchange, declined in August by the most in a single month since November 2008, as managers cut their exposure to the markets amidst 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-24980","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24980","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=24980"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24980\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24982,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24980\/revisions\/24982"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}