{"id":26335,"date":"2011-12-06T09:11:38","date_gmt":"2011-12-06T14:11:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=26335"},"modified":"2011-12-06T09:11:38","modified_gmt":"2011-12-06T14:11:38","slug":"hedge-funds-reverse-as-iran-drives-oil-to-100-energy-markets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/12\/2011\/hedge-funds-reverse-as-iran-drives-oil-to-100-energy-markets.html","title":{"rendered":"Hedge Funds Reverse as Iran Drives Oil to $100: Energy Markets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bloomberg &#8211; Hedge funds retreated from bearish oil bets as rising tension with Iran, OPEC&#8217;s second-largest producer, pushed crude to more than $100 a barrel.<\/p>\n<p>The funds and other large speculators increased wagers on rising prices by 2.6 percent in the seven days ended Nov. 29, according to the Commodity Futures Trading Commission&#8217;s Commitments of Traders report on Dec. 2. They had cut so-called long positions, bets on rising oil, by the most since August the previous week, the Washington-based CFTC said.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/cgi-bin\/article.cgi?f=\/g\/a\/2011\/12\/05\/bloomberg_articlesLVPP9F6K50YC.DTL\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Read Complete Article<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bloomberg &#8211; Hedge funds retreated from bearish oil bets as rising tension with Iran, OPEC&#8217;s second-largest producer, pushed crude to more than $100 a barrel. The funds and other large speculators increased wagers on rising prices by 2.6 percent 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-26335","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26335","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=26335"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26335\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26336,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26335\/revisions\/26336"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}