{"id":33892,"date":"2013-02-14T09:21:02","date_gmt":"2013-02-14T14:21:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=33892"},"modified":"2013-02-14T09:21:02","modified_gmt":"2013-02-14T14:21:02","slug":"as-u-s-gasoline-prices-soar-hedge-fund-oil-bets-near-record","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/02\/2013\/as-u-s-gasoline-prices-soar-hedge-fund-oil-bets-near-record.html","title":{"rendered":"As U.S. gasoline prices soar, hedge fund oil bets near record"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Reuters &#8211; U.S. motorists searching for someone to blame for the highest gasoline prices ever at this time of year have an easy target: hedge funds who have been quietly amassing winning bets on hundreds of millions of barrels of oil.<\/p>\n<p>At a filling station in Midtown New York last week, several people were prepared to blame traders on Wall Street as they paid more than $4 per gallon to fill up their cars.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/2013\/02\/12\/us-oil-speculators-gasoline-idUSBRE91B1L520130212\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Read Complete Article<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reuters &#8211; U.S. motorists searching for someone to blame for the highest gasoline prices ever at this time of year have an easy target: hedge funds who have been quietly amassing winning bets on hundreds of millions of barrels of [&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-33892","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33892","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=33892"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33892\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33894,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33892\/revisions\/33894"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}