{"id":4450,"date":"2006-05-19T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2006-05-19T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T04:00:00","slug":"liffe-trade-hits-record-following-equity-falls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/05\/2006\/liffe-trade-hits-record-following-equity-falls.html","title":{"rendered":"Liffe trade hits record following equity falls"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Financial Times &#8211; Unusually high levels of derivatives-related trading by banks and hedge funds appear to be contributing to the sharp sell-off and volatility in some of the world&#8217;s equity markets.<\/p>\n<p>  The volume of trading in FTSE 100 futures contracts on Euronext.Liffe, the derivatives exchange, surged to a record on Thursday, according to Reuters, as investors placed bets on the direction of  the London stock market.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.ft.com\/cms\/s\/a5b6e990-e69d-11da-a36e-0000779e2340.html\">Read Complete Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Financial Times &#8211; Unusually high levels of derivatives-related trading by banks and hedge funds appear to be contributing to the sharp sell-off and volatility in some of the world&#8217;s equity markets. The volume of trading in FTSE 100 futures contracts [&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-4450","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4450","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=4450"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4450\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}