{"id":40465,"date":"2014-02-06T08:30:27","date_gmt":"2014-02-06T13:30:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=40465"},"modified":"2014-02-06T08:30:27","modified_gmt":"2014-02-06T13:30:27","slug":"hedge-funds-rework-positions-in-emerging-market-drop-currencies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/02\/2014\/hedge-funds-rework-positions-in-emerging-market-drop-currencies.html","title":{"rendered":"Hedge Funds Rework Positions in Emerging-Market Drop: Currencies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bloomberg &#8211; Traders who anticipated a year when riskier bets would pay off are overhauling their foreign- exchange positions after an emerging-markets rout led to the biggest currency-fund losses to start the year since\u00a02004.<\/p>\n<p>Hedge funds and other large speculators shuffled holdings of the dollar, yen, pound, Mexican peso and four other major currencies by a net 102,115 contracts in the week ended Jan. 28, according to\u00a0Commodity Futures Trading Commission\u00a0data. That\u2019s the biggest realignment since September, with updated figures due tomorrow. Currencies from the U.K., Japan and Europe saw the biggest increase in bets on appreciation, while traders added wagers on declines for Mexico\u2019s and Australia\u2019s\u00a0currencies.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/business\/bloomberg\/article\/Hedge-Funds-Rework-Positions-in-Emerging-Market-5209566.php\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Read Complete Article<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bloomberg &#8211; Traders who anticipated a year when riskier bets would pay off are overhauling their foreign- exchange positions after an emerging-markets rout led to the biggest currency-fund losses to start the year since\u00a02004. Hedge funds and other large speculators [&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-40465","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40465","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=40465"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40465\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40466,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40465\/revisions\/40466"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}