{"id":49242,"date":"2015-07-20T08:18:40","date_gmt":"2015-07-20T12:18:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=49242"},"modified":"2015-07-20T08:18:40","modified_gmt":"2015-07-20T12:18:40","slug":"hedge-funds-turn-bearish-on-ruble-for-the-first-time-this-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/07\/2015\/hedge-funds-turn-bearish-on-ruble-for-the-first-time-this-year.html","title":{"rendered":"Hedge Funds Turn Bearish On Ruble For The First Time This Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(Bloomberg) Investors using Russian ruble futures turned bearish this week for the first time since December, according to data compiled the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission.<\/p>\n<p>Hedge funds and large speculators were net short 2,001 futures contracts on the currency in the week ended July 14, wagering that the ruble will decrease in value, the data show. That compares with 999 long positions in the prior five trading days.The ruble dropped 0.9 percent this week, widening its loss from this year\u2019s high to about 14 percent. Brent crude, the oil grade traders use to price the country\u2019s main export blend, slid 2.8 percent to $57.10 per barrel, extending the decline from last year\u2019s high to 50 percent.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2015-07-18\/hedge-funds-turn-bearish-on-ruble-for-the-first-time-this-year\">To read this article:<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Bloomberg) Investors using Russian ruble futures turned bearish this week for the first time since December, according to data compiled the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission. Hedge funds and large speculators were net short 2,001 futures contracts on the currency [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49242","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49242","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\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49242"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49242\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49248,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49242\/revisions\/49248"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}