{"id":36192,"date":"2013-06-17T08:41:31","date_gmt":"2013-06-17T12:41:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=36192"},"modified":"2013-06-17T08:41:31","modified_gmt":"2013-06-17T12:41:31","slug":"hedge-funds-cut-gold-bets-as-paulsons-loss-widens-commodities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/06\/2013\/hedge-funds-cut-gold-bets-as-paulsons-loss-widens-commodities.html","title":{"rendered":"Hedge Funds Cut Gold Bets as Paulson\u2019s Loss Widens: Commodities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bloomberg &#8211; Hedge funds\u00a0cut wagers on a gold rally for the first time in three weeks on mounting speculation central banks will curb record stimulus and as this year\u2019s slump in bullion spurred losses for billionaire\u00a0John Paulson.<\/p>\n<p>The funds and other large speculators lowered their net-long position by 4.1 percent to 54,779\u00a0futures and options\u00a0by June 11, U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission data show. Net-bullish\u00a0wagers\u00a0across 18 U.S.-traded commodities rose 0.1 percent. Bearish copper bets more than doubled as the metal had its longest slump since November. Cocoa holdings advanced to the highest since 2008 before the biggest weekly slide since January.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/2013-06-16\/hedge-funds-cut-gold-bets-as-paulson-s-loss-widens-commodities.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Read Complete Article<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bloomberg &#8211; Hedge funds\u00a0cut wagers on a gold rally for the first time in three weeks on mounting speculation central banks will curb record stimulus and as this year\u2019s slump in bullion spurred losses for billionaire\u00a0John Paulson. The funds and [&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-36192","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36192","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=36192"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36192\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36194,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36192\/revisions\/36194"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}