{"id":38601,"date":"2013-10-14T12:13:42","date_gmt":"2013-10-14T16:13:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=38601"},"modified":"2013-10-14T12:13:42","modified_gmt":"2013-10-14T16:13:42","slug":"hedge-fund-bears-at-year-high-as-equities-focus-on-budget","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/10\/2013\/hedge-fund-bears-at-year-high-as-equities-focus-on-budget.html","title":{"rendered":"Hedge Fund Bears at Year High as Equities Focus on Budget"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bloomberg &#8211; Hedge funds, whose bearish bets on stocks have held their\u00a0returns\u00a0to half the Standard &amp; Poor\u2019s 500 Index in 2013, pushed short sales close to the highest level of the year just as the U.S. budget impasse spurred a doubling in volatility.<\/p>\n<p>Rising bets against equities sent a gauge of manager bullishness compiled by ISI Group LLC within 0.2 point of its lowest reading in 2013 last week. Short sales have backfired as the S&amp;P 500, up 19 percent this year, posts one of its\u00a0broadest\u00a0rallies on record. The index lost 0.5 percent to 1,694.17 at 10:07 a.m. in New York, paring the biggest two-day\u00a0rally\u00a0since January as lawmakers struggled for an accord to raise the debt ceiling. It has swung an average of 0.82 percent a day in October, compared with 0.45 percent in the third quarter.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/2013-10-14\/hedge-fund-bears-at-year-high-as-equities-fixate-on-budget-talks.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Read Complete Article<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bloomberg &#8211; Hedge funds, whose bearish bets on stocks have held their\u00a0returns\u00a0to half the Standard &amp; Poor\u2019s 500 Index in 2013, pushed short sales close to the highest level of the year just as the U.S. budget impasse spurred a [&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-38601","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38601","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=38601"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38601\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38602,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38601\/revisions\/38602"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}