{"id":29599,"date":"2012-06-20T08:16:52","date_gmt":"2012-06-20T12:16:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=29599"},"modified":"2012-06-20T08:16:52","modified_gmt":"2012-06-20T12:16:52","slug":"hedge-funds-hurt-in-may-commodity-rout","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/06\/2012\/hedge-funds-hurt-in-may-commodity-rout.html","title":{"rendered":"Hedge Funds Hurt in May Commodity Rout"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BusinessWeek &#8211; For the third straight year, May proved a disaster for hedge funds that specialize in commodities as raw materials from copper to oil fell into bear markets.<\/p>\n<p>Funds tracked by the Newedge Commodity Trading Index lost an average 3 percent last month, the most since September. Taylor Woods Master Fund Ltd., managing more than $1 billion, retreated 4.2 percent, according to a monthly report obtained by Bloomberg News. Galena Asset Management Ltd.\u2019s metals fund dropped 2.6 percent in May, according to the company, and Brevan Howard Commodities Strategies Master Fund Ltd. fell 2 percent, according to a monthly report to investors obtained by Bloomberg.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessweek.com\/news\/2012-06-20\/hedge-funds-hurt-in-may-commodity-rout-as-brevan-drops\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Read Complete Article<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BusinessWeek &#8211; For the third straight year, May proved a disaster for hedge funds that specialize in commodities as raw materials from copper to oil fell into bear markets. Funds tracked by the Newedge Commodity Trading Index lost an average [&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-29599","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29599","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=29599"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29599\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29601,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29599\/revisions\/29601"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}