{"id":33434,"date":"2013-01-17T05:10:28","date_gmt":"2013-01-17T10:10:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=33434"},"modified":"2013-01-17T05:10:28","modified_gmt":"2013-01-17T10:10:28","slug":"hedge-funds-bet-british-retailers-troubles-will-deepen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/01\/2013\/hedge-funds-bet-british-retailers-troubles-will-deepen.html","title":{"rendered":"Hedge funds bet British retailers&#8217; troubles will deepen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Reuters &#8211; Hedge funds are betting that a prolonged consumer squeeze and a further shift to online shopping could spell trouble for Britain&#8217;s retail chains, and are targeting some of its best-known electrical, clothes and supermarket stores.<\/p>\n<p>With the economic downturn and government tax hikes eating into consumer spending, many hedge funds believe that less money to go round will mean few firms emerge unscathed.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/uk.reuters.com\/article\/2013\/01\/16\/uk-hedgefunds-ukretail-idUKBRE90F11W20130116\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Read Complete Article<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reuters &#8211; Hedge funds are betting that a prolonged consumer squeeze and a further shift to online shopping could spell trouble for Britain&#8217;s retail chains, and are targeting some of its best-known electrical, clothes and supermarket stores. With the economic [&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-33434","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33434","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=33434"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33434\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33435,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33434\/revisions\/33435"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}