{"id":36729,"date":"2013-07-15T10:05:54","date_gmt":"2013-07-15T14:05:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=36729"},"modified":"2013-07-15T10:05:54","modified_gmt":"2013-07-15T14:05:54","slug":"hedge-funds-bought-gold-in-biggest-rally-since-2011-commodities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/07\/2013\/hedge-funds-bought-gold-in-biggest-rally-since-2011-commodities.html","title":{"rendered":"Hedge Funds Bought Gold in Biggest Rally Since 2011: Commodities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bloomberg &#8211; Hedge funds\u00a0raised bets on higher\u00a0gold prices\u00a0for a second week as comments from Federal Reserve Chairman\u00a0Ben S. Bernanke\u00a0damped expectations for an imminent tapering of stimulus. Futures rose the most since 2011.<\/p>\n<p>Speculators increased their net-long position by 4.1 percent to 35,691\u00a0futures and options, U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission data for July 9 show. Net holdings expanded even as speculators increased short bets to a record. Net-bullish\u00a0wagers\u00a0across 18 U.S.-traded commodities retreated 3.4 percent as investors became the most bearish ever on corn. They were more bullish on silver and palladium.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/2013-07-14\/hedge-funds-bought-gold-in-biggest-rally-since-2011-commodities.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Read Complete Article<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bloomberg &#8211; Hedge funds\u00a0raised bets on higher\u00a0gold prices\u00a0for a second week as comments from Federal Reserve Chairman\u00a0Ben S. Bernanke\u00a0damped expectations for an imminent tapering of stimulus. Futures rose the most since 2011. Speculators increased their net-long position by 4.1 percent [&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-36729","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36729","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=36729"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36729\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36730,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36729\/revisions\/36730"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}