{"id":44001,"date":"2014-09-15T06:05:45","date_gmt":"2014-09-15T10:05:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=44001"},"modified":"2014-09-15T06:05:45","modified_gmt":"2014-09-15T10:05:45","slug":"hedging-costs-against-sterlings-swings-soar-on-scottish-vote-worries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/09\/2014\/hedging-costs-against-sterlings-swings-soar-on-scottish-vote-worries.html","title":{"rendered":"Hedging costs against sterling&#8217;s swings soar on Scottish vote worries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Reuters &#8211; The cost of hedging against near-term swings in the British pound jumped to four-year highs on Friday [Sept. 12] and investors added to unfavorable bets in the derivatives market, reflecting jitters about the result of the Scottish referendum.<\/p>\n<p>One-week sterling\/dollar implied volatility rose to a peak of 15.525 percent, according to Reuters data, its highest since mid-2010. The one-week options will expire on Sept. 19, the day after Scotland&#8217;s vote on independence from the United Kingdom, when the results should be announced.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hedgeworld.com\/open_news\/read_newsletter_aa.cgi?section=peop&amp;story=peop6070.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Read Complete Article<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reuters &#8211; The cost of hedging against near-term swings in the British pound jumped to four-year highs on Friday [Sept. 12] and investors added to unfavorable bets in the derivatives market, reflecting jitters about the result of the Scottish referendum. [&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-44001","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44001","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=44001"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44001\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44004,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44001\/revisions\/44004"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}