{"id":29121,"date":"2012-05-22T07:56:12","date_gmt":"2012-05-22T11:56:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=29121"},"modified":"2012-05-22T07:56:12","modified_gmt":"2012-05-22T11:56:12","slug":"hedge-funds-circle-as-japan%e2%80%99s-asset-bubble-grows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/05\/2012\/hedge-funds-circle-as-japan%e2%80%99s-asset-bubble-grows.html","title":{"rendered":"Hedge Funds Circle as Japan\u2019s Asset Bubble Grows"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bloomberg &#8211; It\u2019s limbo, Japanese-style: How low can bond yields go without triggering a meltdown?\u00a0This question gains urgency as 10-year government yields disappear before the world\u2019s eyes.<\/p>\n<p>At 0.83 percent, the lowest level since 2003, they hardly compensate investors for the risks inherent in buying IOUs from the most indebted nation. Public\u00a0debt\u00a0is more than twice the size of the $5.5 trillion economy. Worse, it\u2019s still growing. Fitch Ratings today lowered the sovereign-credit rating by one step to A+ with a negative outlook because of\u00a0Japan\u2019s \u201cleisurely\u201d efforts to cut debt.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/2012-05-21\/hedge-funds-circle-as-japan-s-asset-bubble-grows.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Read Complete Article<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bloomberg &#8211; It\u2019s limbo, Japanese-style: How low can bond yields go without triggering a meltdown?\u00a0This question gains urgency as 10-year government yields disappear before the world\u2019s eyes. At 0.83 percent, the lowest level since 2003, they hardly compensate investors for [&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-29121","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29121","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=29121"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29121\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29122,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29121\/revisions\/29122"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}