{"id":45501,"date":"2014-12-17T07:50:48","date_gmt":"2014-12-17T12:50:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=45501"},"modified":"2014-12-17T07:50:48","modified_gmt":"2014-12-17T12:50:48","slug":"hedge-fund-alden-said-to-profit-on-panic-shorting-russian-ruble","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/12\/2014\/hedge-fund-alden-said-to-profit-on-panic-shorting-russian-ruble.html","title":{"rendered":"Hedge Fund Alden Said to Profit on Panic Shorting Russian Ruble"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bloomberg &#8211; Hedge fund Alden Global Capital is profiting from the turmoil sweeping across Russia\u2019s financial markets.<\/p>\n<p>The $1.8 billion New York-based firm run by Randy Smith has been betting against the ruble for the past month and a half, according to two people familiar with the trade. The currency lost as much as 19 percent today after a surprise interest-rate increase failed to stem its plunge. The ruble has declined 37 percent against the U.S. dollar since Oct. 31, according to data compiled by Bloomberg.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/2014-12-16\/hedge-fund-alden-said-to-profit-on-panic-shorting-russian-ruble.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Read Complete Article<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bloomberg &#8211; Hedge fund Alden Global Capital is profiting from the turmoil sweeping across Russia\u2019s financial markets. The $1.8 billion New York-based firm run by Randy Smith has been betting against the ruble for the past month and a half, [&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-45501","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45501","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=45501"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45501\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45502,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45501\/revisions\/45502"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}