{"id":29343,"date":"2012-06-05T07:18:11","date_gmt":"2012-06-05T11:18:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=29343"},"modified":"2012-06-05T07:18:11","modified_gmt":"2012-06-05T11:18:11","slug":"hedge-funds-in-longest-rout-since-global-recession","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/06\/2012\/hedge-funds-in-longest-rout-since-global-recession.html","title":{"rendered":"Hedge funds in longest rout since global recession"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Business Standard &#8211; Hedge funds curbed bullish bets on commodities for a third consecutive month, the longest retreat since the global recession, as Europe\u2019s worsening debt crisis and slowing US job growth sent prices tumbling.<\/p>\n<p>Money managers reduced net-long positions across 18 US futures and options by 8.1 per cent to 620,715 contracts in the week ended May 29, extending the monthly decline to 26 per cent, Commodity Futures Trading Commission data show. Speculators are now the most bearish since the start of year on copper, oil, heating oil, corn, gold and silver. The Standard &amp; Poor\u2019s GSCI Spot Index of 24 raw materials slumped 13 per cent in May.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.business-standard.com\/india\/news\/hedge-funds-in-longest-rout-since-global-recession\/476309\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Read Complete Article<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Business Standard &#8211; Hedge funds curbed bullish bets on commodities for a third consecutive month, the longest retreat since the global recession, as Europe\u2019s worsening debt crisis and slowing US job growth sent prices tumbling. Money managers reduced net-long positions [&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-29343","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29343","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=29343"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29343\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29344,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29343\/revisions\/29344"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}