{"id":30735,"date":"2012-08-17T06:56:56","date_gmt":"2012-08-17T10:56:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=30735"},"modified":"2012-08-17T06:56:56","modified_gmt":"2012-08-17T10:56:56","slug":"hedge-funds-bet-on-oil-spike-as-israel-attack-fears-grow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/08\/2012\/hedge-funds-bet-on-oil-spike-as-israel-attack-fears-grow.html","title":{"rendered":"Hedge funds bet on oil spike as Israel attack fears grow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cairo &#8211; Hedge funds are quietly laying new bets on a potential spike in oil prices tied to the possibility of an Israeli attack on\u00a0Iran, skewing the options market to a bullish bias for the first time in six months.<\/p>\n<p>Signs that Israel is losing patience with efforts to curtail Iran&#8217;s nuclear program, as well as the intensifying conflict in\u00a0Syria, are giving funds new reason to bet on crude despite a lack of evidence that fundamentals are improving. Activity is muted so far by the summer lull, but could pick up in September.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/english.ahram.org.eg\/NewsContent\/3\/12\/50656\/Business\/Economy\/Hedge-funds-bet-on-oil-spike-as-Israel-attack-fear.aspx\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Read Complete Article<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cairo &#8211; Hedge funds are quietly laying new bets on a potential spike in oil prices tied to the possibility of an Israeli attack on\u00a0Iran, skewing the options market to a bullish bias for the first time in six months. [&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-30735","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30735","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=30735"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30735\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30737,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30735\/revisions\/30737"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}