{"id":26714,"date":"2012-01-04T10:19:14","date_gmt":"2012-01-04T15:19:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=26714"},"modified":"2012-01-04T10:19:14","modified_gmt":"2012-01-04T15:19:14","slug":"short-sellers-cast-eye-towards-struggling-uk-retailers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/01\/2012\/short-sellers-cast-eye-towards-struggling-uk-retailers.html","title":{"rendered":"Short-sellers cast eye towards struggling UK retailers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Reuters &#8211; Hedge funds hunting profits from falling share prices are circling many of Britain&#8217;s biggest retailers after deep pre-Christmas discounting failed to tempt shoppers to splash the cash in the festive season.<\/p>\n<p>Lacklustre festive spending is expected to blight a wave of New Year trading figures from Marks &amp; Spencer, WHSmith, Carpetright, Home Retail Group and Mothercare, who have all suffered a spike in the volumes of stock out on loan, a key indicator of short-selling interest.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/2012\/01\/04\/uk-shortselling-retailers-britain-idUSLNE80300M20120104\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Read Complete Article<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reuters &#8211; Hedge funds hunting profits from falling share prices are circling many of Britain&#8217;s biggest retailers after deep pre-Christmas discounting failed to tempt shoppers to splash the cash in the festive season. Lacklustre festive spending is expected to blight [&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-26714","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26714","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=26714"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26714\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26715,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26714\/revisions\/26715"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}