{"id":51972,"date":"2016-03-24T09:44:18","date_gmt":"2016-03-24T13:44:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=51972"},"modified":"2016-03-24T09:44:18","modified_gmt":"2016-03-24T13:44:18","slug":"hedge-funds-cover-ag-shorts-en-masse-triggering-hefty-losses-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/03\/2016\/hedge-funds-cover-ag-shorts-en-masse-triggering-hefty-losses-2.html","title":{"rendered":"Hedge Funds Cover Ag Shorts En Masse &#8211; Triggering Hefty Losses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n(Agrimoney.com) Hedge funds threw in the towel on short positions in agricultural commodities at one of the fastest paces on record, in many cases realising losses \u2013 although ironically raising questions about market strength to come. Managed money, a proxy for speculators, turned from a net short position in the main US-traded ags of 213,000 contracts &#8211; the second largest in history \u2013 to a net long of some 34,000 lots in week to last Tuesday, according to data from the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) regulator.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.agrimoney.com\/news\/hedge-funds-cover-ag-shorts-en-masse---triggering-hefty-losses--9436.html\">To read this article:<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Agrimoney.com) Hedge funds threw in the towel on short positions in agricultural commodities at one of the fastest paces on record, in many cases realising losses \u2013 although ironically raising questions about market strength to come. Managed money, a proxy [&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-51972","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51972","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=51972"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51972\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51973,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51972\/revisions\/51973"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}