{"id":52151,"date":"2016-04-11T08:37:56","date_gmt":"2016-04-11T12:37:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=52151"},"modified":"2016-04-11T08:37:56","modified_gmt":"2016-04-11T12:37:56","slug":"hedge-funds-investing-in-china-lost-7-4-pct-in-first-quarter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/04\/2016\/hedge-funds-investing-in-china-lost-7-4-pct-in-first-quarter.html","title":{"rendered":"Hedge Funds Investing in China Lost 7.4 Pct in First Quarter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n(Reuters) Hedge funds investing in China lost an average of 7.4 percent in the first quarter of 2016, the fallout of a turbulent three months for the world&#8217;s second largest economy, all but wiping out all the previous year&#8217;s profits, data from eVestment showed.<\/p>\n<p>A slowing of China&#8217;s growth along with pressure on its stock markets, corporate borrowers and the yuan currency sent a shockwave through global financial markets in January.<\/p>\n<p>Public media in China lashed out at hedge fund &#8220;speculators&#8221; and regulators took a raft of measures to prevent the aggressive shorting of local markets and offshore trading of the yuan.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/hedgefunds-performance-china-idUSL5N17B3KB\">To read this article:<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Reuters) Hedge funds investing in China lost an average of 7.4 percent in the first quarter of 2016, the fallout of a turbulent three months for the world&#8217;s second largest economy, all but wiping out all the previous year&#8217;s profits, [&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-52151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52151","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=52151"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52151\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52152,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52151\/revisions\/52152"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}