{"id":50907,"date":"2015-12-09T08:28:12","date_gmt":"2015-12-09T13:28:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=50907"},"modified":"2015-12-09T08:28:12","modified_gmt":"2015-12-09T13:28:12","slug":"hedges-score-big-time-on-bets-against-anglo-american","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/12\/2015\/hedges-score-big-time-on-bets-against-anglo-american.html","title":{"rendered":"Hedges Score Big Time On Bets Against Anglo American"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(Wall Street Journal Interactive) A bevy of hedge funds have scored big after building a sizable short position against Anglo American PLC, the fifth-biggest miner by market valuation. In a investor day Tuesday, Anglo American suspended dividend payments and slashed capital expenditure in a battle with an ongoing commodities slump. The miner also announced 85,000 new job reductions and a major restructuring. Shares fell over 11%, after tumbling to an all-time low the previous day&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.wsj.com\/moneybeat\/2015\/12\/08\/hedge-funds-score-big-on-bets-against-anglo-american\/\">To read this article:<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Wall Street Journal Interactive) A bevy of hedge funds have scored big after building a sizable short position against Anglo American PLC, the fifth-biggest miner by market valuation. In a investor day Tuesday, Anglo American suspended dividend payments and slashed [&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-50907","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50907","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=50907"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50907\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50908,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50907\/revisions\/50908"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}