{"id":35810,"date":"2013-05-29T08:29:05","date_gmt":"2013-05-29T12:29:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=35810"},"modified":"2013-05-29T08:29:05","modified_gmt":"2013-05-29T12:29:05","slug":"kier-group-shares-targeted-by-short-selling-hedge-funds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/05\/2013\/kier-group-shares-targeted-by-short-selling-hedge-funds.html","title":{"rendered":"Kier Group shares targeted by short selling hedge funds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hedge funds have taken a substantial punt against the fortunes of FTSE 250 construction business Kier Group by betting the company\u2019s shares will fall, a practice known as short selling.<\/p>\n<p>More than 12 per cent of Kier\u2019s stock is currently out on loan, up 297 per cent on the same time last month, according to data supplied to City A.M. by financial information services company Markit.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cityam.com\/article\/kier-group-shares-targeted-short-selling-hedge-funds\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Read Complete Article<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hedge funds have taken a substantial punt against the fortunes of FTSE 250 construction business Kier Group by betting the company\u2019s shares will fall, a practice known as short selling. More than 12 per cent of Kier\u2019s stock is currently [&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-35810","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35810","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=35810"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35810\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35812,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35810\/revisions\/35812"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35810"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35810"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35810"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}