{"id":3969,"date":"2006-02-10T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2006-02-10T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T04:00:00","slug":"hedge-fund-hijinks-play-havoc-with-base-metal-prices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/02\/2006\/hedge-fund-hijinks-play-havoc-with-base-metal-prices.html","title":{"rendered":"Hedge fund hijinks play havoc with base metal prices"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"bodytext\">HEDGE fund trading is playing havoc with base metal prices, making it difficult to calculate true values and making prices more susceptible to quick pull-backs.<\/p>\n<p><\/span><span class=\"bodytext\">Prices for many base metals are at, or near, record levels after spectacular rises this year.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>  <span class=\"bodytext\">But a decrease in prices, mainly by overseas investors taking profits, sent a shiver through the Australian share market this week.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>  <span class=\"bodytext\">&#8220;While recognising that fundamentals for base metals are strong, we remain of the view that current metal prices have been inflated by investment flows,&#8221; Goldman Sachs JB  Were analysts said yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theaustralian.news.com.au\/common\/story_page\/0,5744,18106846%5E643,00.html\"><strong>Read Complete Article<\/strong><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HEDGE fund trading is playing havoc with base metal prices, making it difficult to calculate true values and making prices more susceptible to quick pull-backs. Prices for many base metals are at, or near, record levels after spectacular rises this [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3969","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3969","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3969"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3969\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}