{"id":41085,"date":"2014-03-11T09:16:08","date_gmt":"2014-03-11T13:16:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=41085"},"modified":"2014-03-11T09:16:08","modified_gmt":"2014-03-11T13:16:08","slug":"ex-olympians-hedge-fund-punctured-by-japan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/03\/2014\/ex-olympians-hedge-fund-punctured-by-japan.html","title":{"rendered":"Ex-Olympian\u2019s Hedge Fund Punctured by Japan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WSJ &#8211; The $1.5 billion Balestra Capital Partners, L.P., started by ex-Olympian Jim Melcher, lost more than 6% last month pressing bullish bets on Japanese stocks and against the yen,<\/p>\n<p>That was the fund\u2019s worst month in almost four years. In total, it is down about 9% in the first two months of the year, after earning about 8% in 2013.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.wsj.com\/moneybeat\/2014\/03\/10\/ex-olympians-hedge-fund-punctured-by-japan\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Read Complete Article<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WSJ &#8211; The $1.5 billion Balestra Capital Partners, L.P., started by ex-Olympian Jim Melcher, lost more than 6% last month pressing bullish bets on Japanese stocks and against the yen, That was the fund\u2019s worst month in almost four years. [&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-41085","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41085","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=41085"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41085\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41086,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41085\/revisions\/41086"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41085"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41085"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41085"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}