{"id":46484,"date":"2015-02-17T09:10:56","date_gmt":"2015-02-17T14:10:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=46484"},"modified":"2015-02-17T09:10:56","modified_gmt":"2015-02-17T14:10:56","slug":"hedge-fund-short-squeeze-pushes-brent-oil-bets-to-7-month-high","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/02\/2015\/hedge-fund-short-squeeze-pushes-brent-oil-bets-to-7-month-high.html","title":{"rendered":"Hedge fund short squeeze pushes Brent oil bets to 7-month high"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Reuters &#8211; Hedge fund and other large speculators&#8217; bets on rising Brent crude oil prices jumped last week to the highest since July, exchange data showed on Monday, as a price rally squeezed out short positions.<\/p>\n<p>Speculators&#8217; net long positions in Brent, the difference between bets on rising and falling prices, rose by 18,391 contracts to 158,974 in the week to February 10, a move driven entirely by funds closing out short positions as Brent rallied to its highest level this year.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/2015\/02\/17\/us-ice-brent-idUSKBN0LL0TZ20150217\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Read Complete Article<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reuters &#8211; Hedge fund and other large speculators&#8217; bets on rising Brent crude oil prices jumped last week to the highest since July, exchange data showed on Monday, as a price rally squeezed out short positions. Speculators&#8217; net long positions [&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-46484","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46484","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=46484"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46484\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46485,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46484\/revisions\/46485"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}