{"id":35879,"date":"2013-06-03T07:39:45","date_gmt":"2013-06-03T11:39:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=35879"},"modified":"2013-06-03T07:39:45","modified_gmt":"2013-06-03T11:39:45","slug":"hedge-funds-boost-gold-bull-bets-most-in-two-months-commodities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/06\/2013\/hedge-funds-boost-gold-bull-bets-most-in-two-months-commodities.html","title":{"rendered":"Hedge Funds Boost Gold Bull Bets Most in Two Months: Commodities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bloomberg &#8211; Hedge funds raised bets on a gold rally by the most in two months as the U.S. economy expanded less than previously estimated, boosting speculation the Federal Reserve will maintain the pace of stimulus.<\/p>\n<p>Speculators raised their net-long position by 35 percent to 48,096\u00a0futures and options\u00a0by May 28, the biggest gain since March 19, U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission data show. Most of the gain came from a drop in short bets, which reached a record a week earlier. Net-bullish\u00a0wagers\u00a0across 18 U.S.-traded commodities climbed 13 percent to a nine-week high of 652,708 contracts, led by gains in corn and natural gas.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/2013-06-02\/hedge-funds-boost-gold-bull-bets-most-in-two-months-commodities.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Read Complete Article<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bloomberg &#8211; Hedge funds raised bets on a gold rally by the most in two months as the U.S. economy expanded less than previously estimated, boosting speculation the Federal Reserve will maintain the pace of stimulus. Speculators raised their net-long [&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-35879","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35879","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=35879"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35879\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35880,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35879\/revisions\/35880"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}