{"id":35492,"date":"2013-05-15T07:33:58","date_gmt":"2013-05-15T11:33:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=35492"},"modified":"2013-05-15T07:33:58","modified_gmt":"2013-05-15T11:33:58","slug":"hedge-funds-bet-on-freddie-fannie-rise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/05\/2013\/hedge-funds-bet-on-freddie-fannie-rise.html","title":{"rendered":"Hedge Funds Bet on Freddie, Fannie Rise"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WSJ &#8211; Some of the hedge funds that made fortunes in the housing-market crash are now betting on the recovery of\u00a0Fannie Mae\u00a0and\u00a0Freddie Mac,\u00a0the government-controlled mortgage giants.<\/p>\n<p>Paulson &amp; Co. and Perry Capital LLC are among a handful of hedge-fund firms that have bought so-called preferred shares in Fannie and Freddie, which collapsed in value in 2008 after the companies were taken over by the federal government.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB10001424127887324216004578483413966697072.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Read Complete Article<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WSJ &#8211; Some of the hedge funds that made fortunes in the housing-market crash are now betting on the recovery of\u00a0Fannie Mae\u00a0and\u00a0Freddie Mac,\u00a0the government-controlled mortgage giants. Paulson &amp; Co. and Perry Capital LLC are among a handful of hedge-fund firms [&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-35492","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35492","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=35492"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35492\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35494,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35492\/revisions\/35494"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}