{"id":28820,"date":"2012-05-02T08:12:11","date_gmt":"2012-05-02T12:12:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=28820"},"modified":"2012-05-02T08:12:11","modified_gmt":"2012-05-02T12:12:11","slug":"special-report-inside-chesapeake-ceo-ran-200-million-hedge-fund","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/05\/2012\/special-report-inside-chesapeake-ceo-ran-200-million-hedge-fund.html","title":{"rendered":"Special Report &#8211; Inside Chesapeake, CEO ran $200 million hedge fund"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Reuters &#8211; As chairman and CEO of Chesapeake Energy Corp, Aubrey McClendon has been a powerhouse in the vast U.S. natural gas market, directing the company&#8217;s multibillion dollar energy-trading operation and setting output targets for America&#8217;s second-largest producer.<\/p>\n<p>Behind the scenes, a Reuters investigation has found, McClendon also ran a lucrative business on the side: a $200 million (123 million pounds) hedge fund that traded in the same commodities Chesapeake produces.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/uk.reuters.com\/article\/2012\/05\/02\/uk-chesapeake-mcclendon-hedge-idUKBRE8410H020120502\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Read Complete Article<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reuters &#8211; As chairman and CEO of Chesapeake Energy Corp, Aubrey McClendon has been a powerhouse in the vast U.S. natural gas market, directing the company&#8217;s multibillion dollar energy-trading operation and setting output targets for America&#8217;s second-largest producer. Behind 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-28820","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28820","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=28820"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28820\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28822,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28820\/revisions\/28822"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}