{"id":27478,"date":"2012-02-20T08:16:42","date_gmt":"2012-02-20T13:16:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=27478"},"modified":"2012-02-20T08:16:42","modified_gmt":"2012-02-20T13:16:42","slug":"hedge-funds-hike-their-bets-on-2012-rally","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/02\/2012\/hedge-funds-hike-their-bets-on-2012-rally.html","title":{"rendered":"Hedge funds hike their bets on 2012 rally"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Reuters &#8211; Hedge funds are cranking up their bets in equities and credit in 2012&#8217;s buoyant markets in the belief that the\u00a0euro zone, U.S. and Chinese economies will fare better than many were fearing last year.<\/p>\n<p>Many funds think the European Central Bank&#8217;s long-term refinancing operations (LTRO), which flooded markets with 489 billion euros (409 billion pounds) of cheap cash in December and provide more this month, are a turning point in propping up the region&#8217;s battered banks.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/2012\/02\/20\/uk-hedgefunds-risk-idUSLNE81J01P20120220\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Read Complete Article<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reuters &#8211; Hedge funds are cranking up their bets in equities and credit in 2012&#8217;s buoyant markets in the belief that the\u00a0euro zone, U.S. and Chinese economies will fare better than many were fearing last year. Many funds think 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-27478","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27478","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=27478"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27478\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27479,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27478\/revisions\/27479"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}