{"id":31268,"date":"2012-09-13T00:57:00","date_gmt":"2012-09-13T04:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=31268"},"modified":"2012-09-12T22:59:16","modified_gmt":"2012-09-13T02:59:16","slug":"august-euro-rally-catches-currency-funds-by-surprise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/09\/2012\/august-euro-rally-catches-currency-funds-by-surprise.html","title":{"rendered":"August Euro Rally Catches Currency Funds by Surprise"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WSJ &#8211; Investors were unprepared for the euro&#8217;s dramatic rebound in the month of August, hurting performance at currency-focused hedge funds.<\/p>\n<p>A widely watched index of currency funds fell 0.85% in August from the previous month, as investors holding bets that the euro would continue to decline against the dollar were hit by the common currency&#8217;s 2.23% gain during the month. The Parker Global Currency Managers Index, which tracks the performance of funds in which the firm invests, declined 2.43% in August from a year earlier.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB10000872396390444426404577647823736654182.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Read Complete Article<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WSJ &#8211; Investors were unprepared for the euro&#8217;s dramatic rebound in the month of August, hurting performance at currency-focused hedge funds. A widely watched index of currency funds fell 0.85% in August from the previous month, as investors holding bets [&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-31268","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31268","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=31268"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31268\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31269,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31268\/revisions\/31269"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}