{"id":44374,"date":"2014-10-06T08:32:23","date_gmt":"2014-10-06T12:32:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=44374"},"modified":"2014-10-06T08:32:23","modified_gmt":"2014-10-06T12:32:23","slug":"tumbling-oil-prices-punish-hedge-funds-betting-on-gains","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/10\/2014\/tumbling-oil-prices-punish-hedge-funds-betting-on-gains.html","title":{"rendered":"Tumbling Oil Prices Punish Hedge Funds Betting on Gains"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"color: #2d2b2c;\">Bloomberg &#8211; Hedge funds\u00a0increased bets on rising oil prices just before crude futures tumbled to a 17-month low on signs that global supply is outstripping demand.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #2d2b2c;\">Prices capped the biggest weekly decline in two months after money managers boosted net-long positions in West Texas Intermediate by\u00a04.1 percent\u00a0in the seven days ended Sept. 30. Long positions climbed 2.7 percent, U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission data show.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #2d2b2c;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/2014-10-05\/tumbling-oil-prices-punish-hedge-funds-betting-on-gains.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Read Complete Article<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bloomberg &#8211; Hedge funds\u00a0increased bets on rising oil prices just before crude futures tumbled to a 17-month low on signs that global supply is outstripping demand. Prices capped the biggest weekly decline in two months after money managers boosted net-long [&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-44374","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44374","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=44374"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44374\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44375,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44374\/revisions\/44375"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}