{"id":37893,"date":"2013-09-10T12:53:15","date_gmt":"2013-09-10T16:53:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=37893"},"modified":"2013-09-10T12:53:15","modified_gmt":"2013-09-10T16:53:15","slug":"hedge-fund-gold-bets-climb-to-highest-since-january-commodities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/09\/2013\/hedge-fund-gold-bets-climb-to-highest-since-january-commodities.html","title":{"rendered":"Hedge Fund Gold Bets Climb to Highest Since January: Commodities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bloomberg &#8211; Hedge funds\u2019 combined holdings in gold futures increased to the most bullish since January on mounting concern that conflict in the\u00a0Middle East\u00a0will boost crude-oil prices, slowing economic growth and stoking inflation.<\/p>\n<p>The net-long position rose 3.6 percent to 101,396\u00a0futures and options\u00a0in the week ended Sept. 3, U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission data show. Long wagers gained 0.6 percent and short bets contracted 8.6 percent, the fourth consecutive drop and the longest retreat in a year. Combined net-long\u00a0holdings\u00a0across 18 U.S.-traded commodities fell 0.3 percent as investors got less bullish on copper.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/2013-09-08\/hedge-fund-gold-bets-climb-to-highest-since-january-commodities.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Read Complete Article<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bloomberg &#8211; Hedge funds\u2019 combined holdings in gold futures increased to the most bullish since January on mounting concern that conflict in the\u00a0Middle East\u00a0will boost crude-oil prices, slowing economic growth and stoking inflation. The net-long position rose 3.6 percent to [&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-37893","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37893","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=37893"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37893\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37894,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37893\/revisions\/37894"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}