{"id":50202,"date":"2015-10-07T08:51:42","date_gmt":"2015-10-07T12:51:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=50202"},"modified":"2015-10-07T08:51:42","modified_gmt":"2015-10-07T12:51:42","slug":"hedge-funds-make-positive-shift-in-ag-bets-led-by-sugar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/10\/2015\/hedge-funds-make-positive-shift-in-ag-bets-led-by-sugar.html","title":{"rendered":"Hedge Funds Make Positive Shift in Ag Bets, Led by Sugar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(Agrimoney.com) Hedge funds undertook a sharp wave of short-covering as pessimism over agricultural commodity prices waned, particularly in sugar, in which they turned more positive on prospects at the fastest pace in 15 months.<\/p>\n<p>Managed money, a proxy for speculators, lifted its net long position in futures and options in the top 13 US-traded agricultural commodities, from corn to cotton, by 100,285 contracts in the week to last Tuesday, analysis of data from the Commodity Futures Trading Commission regulator shows.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.agrimoney.com\/news\/hedge-funds-make-positive-shift-in-ag-bets-led-by-sugar--8846.html\">To read this article:<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Agrimoney.com) Hedge funds undertook a sharp wave of short-covering as pessimism over agricultural commodity prices waned, particularly in sugar, in which they turned more positive on prospects at the fastest pace in 15 months. Managed money, a proxy for speculators, [&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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50202","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50202","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=50202"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50202\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50203,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50202\/revisions\/50203"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}