{"id":37324,"date":"2013-08-12T12:03:11","date_gmt":"2013-08-12T16:03:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=37324"},"modified":"2013-08-12T12:03:11","modified_gmt":"2013-08-12T16:03:11","slug":"hedge-funds-trim-gold-bets-on-stimulus-speculation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/08\/2013\/hedge-funds-trim-gold-bets-on-stimulus-speculation.html","title":{"rendered":"Hedge Funds Trim Gold Bets on Stimulus Speculation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bloomberg &#8211; Hedge funds cut bullish gold bets by the most since June amid speculation about whether the Federal Reserve will begin trimming its monthly bond purchases.<\/p>\n<p>Money managers cut their net-long position by 27 percent to 48,103\u00a0futures and options\u00a0by Aug. 6, U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission data show. Holdings of short contracts rose 26 percent. Net-bullish\u00a0bets\u00a0across 18 U.S.-traded raw materials dropped 19 percent to the lowest since March and a measure of wagers across agricultural commodities turned negative for the first time on record.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/2013-08-11\/hedge-funds-trim-gold-bets-on-stimulus-speculation-commodities.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Read Complete Article<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bloomberg &#8211; Hedge funds cut bullish gold bets by the most since June amid speculation about whether the Federal Reserve will begin trimming its monthly bond purchases. Money managers cut their net-long position by 27 percent to 48,103\u00a0futures and options\u00a0by [&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-37324","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37324","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=37324"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37324\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37326,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37324\/revisions\/37326"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}