{"id":29102,"date":"2012-05-21T09:04:26","date_gmt":"2012-05-21T13:04:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=29102"},"modified":"2012-05-21T09:04:26","modified_gmt":"2012-05-21T13:04:26","slug":"hedge-funds-dump-2-billion-in-gold-over-a-week-cftc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/05\/2012\/hedge-funds-dump-2-billion-in-gold-over-a-week-cftc.html","title":{"rendered":"Hedge funds dump $2 billion in gold over a week: CFTC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Reuters &#8211; Hedge funds and other money managers liquidated more than $2 billion in gold futures over a week, trade data on Friday showed, before a forceful rebound in the precious metal potentially tripped up some of them.<\/p>\n<p>The majority of fund managers also appear to have bet wrongly against wheat, as suggested by the data from the Commodity Futures Trading Commission which showed a net &#8220;short&#8221; or bearish position against the grain which finished this week with its highest weekly gain in 16 years.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/articles.chicagotribune.com\/2012-05-18\/business\/sns-rt-us-hedgefunds-commodities-weeklybre84i00a-20120518_1_hedge-fund-managers-gold-futures\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Read Complete Article<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reuters &#8211; Hedge funds and other money managers liquidated more than $2 billion in gold futures over a week, trade data on Friday showed, before a forceful rebound in the precious metal potentially tripped up some of them. The majority [&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-29102","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29102","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=29102"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29102\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29103,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29102\/revisions\/29103"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}