{"id":46797,"date":"2015-03-09T06:53:53","date_gmt":"2015-03-09T10:53:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=46797"},"modified":"2015-03-09T06:53:53","modified_gmt":"2015-03-09T10:53:53","slug":"hedge-funds-cut-bullish-ag-bets-at-fastest-pace-in-20-months","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/03\/2015\/hedge-funds-cut-bullish-ag-bets-at-fastest-pace-in-20-months.html","title":{"rendered":"Hedge funds cut bullish ag bets at fastest pace in 20 months"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>AgriMoney &#8211; Hedge fund optimism in agricultural commodity prices, as measured by positioning in derivatives, plunged at its fastest rate in 20 months, led by a surge in pessimism over values of wheat and sugar, in which bearish bets hit a record high.<\/p>\n<p>Managed money, a proxy for speculators, slashed by nearly 130,000 contracts its net long position in futures and options in the main 13 US-traded agricultural commodities in the week to last Tuesday, according to data from the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) regulator.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/m.agrimoney.com\/news\/hedge-funds-cut-bullish-ag-bets-at-fastest-pace-in-20-months--8047.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Read Complete Article<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AgriMoney &#8211; Hedge fund optimism in agricultural commodity prices, as measured by positioning in derivatives, plunged at its fastest rate in 20 months, led by a surge in pessimism over values of wheat and sugar, in which bearish bets hit [&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-46797","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46797","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=46797"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46797\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46799,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46797\/revisions\/46799"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}