{"id":51208,"date":"2016-01-08T08:35:30","date_gmt":"2016-01-08T13:35:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=51208"},"modified":"2016-01-08T08:35:30","modified_gmt":"2016-01-08T13:35:30","slug":"cocoa-futures-plumb-new-lows-as-hedge-funds-throw-in-the-towel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/01\/2016\/cocoa-futures-plumb-new-lows-as-hedge-funds-throw-in-the-towel.html","title":{"rendered":"Cocoa Futures Plumb New Lows as Hedge Funds &#8216;Throw in The Towel&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(Agrimoney.com) Cocoa futures continued to plummet, amid volatile and high volume trading, amid ongoing uncertainty about West African production prospects.Front-month cocoa futures fell nearly 3% in morning deals in New York, to $2,898 a tonne, extending gains this week nearly to 10%. The selldown, which has taken prices 15% below a five-year high a month ago, contrasts with a strong performance by the bean last year, over which it was one of the few commodities to post gains.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.agrimoney.com\/news\/cocoa-futures-plumb-new-lows-as-hedge-funds-throw-in-the-towel--9161.html\">To read this article:<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Agrimoney.com) Cocoa futures continued to plummet, amid volatile and high volume trading, amid ongoing uncertainty about West African production prospects.Front-month cocoa futures fell nearly 3% in morning deals in New York, to $2,898 a tonne, extending gains this week nearly [&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-51208","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51208","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=51208"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51208\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51209,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51208\/revisions\/51209"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}