{"id":39020,"date":"2013-11-11T04:38:09","date_gmt":"2013-11-11T09:38:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=39020"},"modified":"2013-11-11T04:38:09","modified_gmt":"2013-11-11T09:38:09","slug":"hedge-funds-cut-bullish-gold-bets-on-fed-stimulus-outlook","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/11\/2013\/hedge-funds-cut-bullish-gold-bets-on-fed-stimulus-outlook.html","title":{"rendered":"Hedge Funds Cut Bullish Gold Bets on Fed Stimulus Outlook"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bloomberg &#8211; Hedge funds\u00a0cut bullish gold bets, adding the most short contracts in four weeks, as U.S. economic growth fuels speculation the\u00a0Federal Reserve\u00a0will trim stimulus. Holdings across commodities dropped the most since April.<\/p>\n<p>The net position in gold slid 13 percent to 87,689\u00a0futures and options\u00a0in the week ended Nov. 5, U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission data show. Short bets jumped 37 percent, the most since Oct. 15, and long wagers fell 4.9 percent. Combined\u00a0holdings\u00a0across 18 U.S.-traded commodities dropped 20 percent to 658,263 contracts as investors cut cotton positions to the lowest this year and crude-oil bets to the fewest since June.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/2013-11-10\/hedge-funds-cut-bullish-gold-bets-on-fed-stimulus-outlook.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Read Complete Article<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bloomberg &#8211; Hedge funds\u00a0cut bullish gold bets, adding the most short contracts in four weeks, as U.S. economic growth fuels speculation the\u00a0Federal Reserve\u00a0will trim stimulus. Holdings across commodities dropped the most since April. The net position in gold slid 13 [&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-39020","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39020","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=39020"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39020\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39021,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39020\/revisions\/39021"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}