{"id":37628,"date":"2013-08-26T11:40:50","date_gmt":"2013-08-26T15:40:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=37628"},"modified":"2013-08-26T11:40:50","modified_gmt":"2013-08-26T15:40:50","slug":"hedge-fund-gold-bets-reach-six-month-high-after-rally","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/08\/2013\/hedge-fund-gold-bets-reach-six-month-high-after-rally.html","title":{"rendered":"Hedge Fund Gold Bets Reach Six-Month High After Rally"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bloomberg &#8211; Hedge funds\u00a0and other speculators raised bets on higher\u00a0gold prices\u00a0to the most in six months as signs of slowing U.S. growth drove bullion above $1,400 an ounce for the first time since June.<\/p>\n<p>The net-long position increased 29 percent to 73,216\u00a0futures and options\u00a0by Aug. 20, U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission data show. Short contracts fell for a second week and to the lowest since Feb. 12. Net-bullish\u00a0holdings\u00a0across 18 U.S.-traded commodities jumped 34 percent, the most since July 2010, as wagers on copper and soybeans more than doubled.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/2013-08-25\/hedge-fund-gold-bets-at-six-month-high-after-rally-commodities.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Read Complete Article<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bloomberg &#8211; Hedge funds\u00a0and other speculators raised bets on higher\u00a0gold prices\u00a0to the most in six months as signs of slowing U.S. growth drove bullion above $1,400 an ounce for the first time since June. The net-long position increased 29 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-37628","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37628","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=37628"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37628\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37629,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37628\/revisions\/37629"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}