{"id":29253,"date":"2012-05-30T07:35:04","date_gmt":"2012-05-30T11:35:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=29253"},"modified":"2012-05-30T07:35:04","modified_gmt":"2012-05-30T11:35:04","slug":"hedge-funds-queue-up-to-go-short-of-bankia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/05\/2012\/hedge-funds-queue-up-to-go-short-of-bankia.html","title":{"rendered":"Hedge funds queue up to go short of Bankia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Reuters &#8211; A rush by hedge funds to go short of troubled Bankia\u00a0in recent months has been stymied by a shortage of stock, limiting their gains from the Spanish bank&#8217;s collapsing share price.<\/p>\n<p>Shortsellers borrow shares they expect to drop in price and then sell them in the market. If the bet works, they buy them back when the price has dropped, return them to their owners, and pocket the difference.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/uk.reuters.com\/article\/2012\/05\/29\/uk-bankia-shortsellers-idUKLNE84S02920120529\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Read Complete Article<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reuters &#8211; A rush by hedge funds to go short of troubled Bankia\u00a0in recent months has been stymied by a shortage of stock, limiting their gains from the Spanish bank&#8217;s collapsing share price. Shortsellers borrow shares they expect to drop [&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-29253","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29253","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=29253"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29253\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29254,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29253\/revisions\/29254"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}