{"id":27651,"date":"2012-02-28T09:05:26","date_gmt":"2012-02-28T14:05:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=27651"},"modified":"2012-02-28T09:05:26","modified_gmt":"2012-02-28T14:05:26","slug":"iran-drives-hedge-fund-oil-bets-to-10-month-high-energy-markets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/02\/2012\/iran-drives-hedge-fund-oil-bets-to-10-month-high-energy-markets.html","title":{"rendered":"Iran Drives Hedge Fund Oil Bets to 10-Month High: Energy Markets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bloomberg &#8211; Iran&#8217;s pledge to halt oil sales to France and Britain combined with faster U.S. economic growth and Greece&#8217;s bailout sent bullish bets on crude futures to the highest levels in about 10 months and prices above $109 a barrel for the first time in almost a year.<\/p>\n<p>Hedge funds and other large speculators raised wagers on rising prices 11 percent in the week ended Feb. 21, according to the Commodity Futures Trading Commission&#8217;s Commitments of Traders report. Bets increased 26 percent over two weeks, the biggest gain since March, as West Texas Intermediate crude futures touched $109.95 in New York trading on Feb. 24.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/cgi-bin\/article.cgi?f=\/g\/a\/2012\/02\/27\/bloomberg_articlesM0003Q1A74E901-M02JR.DTL\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Read Complete Article<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bloomberg &#8211; Iran&#8217;s pledge to halt oil sales to France and Britain combined with faster U.S. economic growth and Greece&#8217;s bailout sent bullish bets on crude futures to the highest levels in about 10 months and prices above $109 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-27651","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27651","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=27651"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27651\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27652,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27651\/revisions\/27652"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}