{"id":52428,"date":"2016-05-02T08:27:50","date_gmt":"2016-05-02T12:27:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=52428"},"modified":"2016-05-02T08:29:36","modified_gmt":"2016-05-02T12:29:36","slug":"oil-rally-is-not-just-about-hedge-funds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/05\/2016\/oil-rally-is-not-just-about-hedge-funds.html","title":{"rendered":"Oil rally is not just about hedge funds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(Reuters) Oil prices are becoming dangerously overheated as speculators anticipate a rebalancing of supply and demand that has barely started, according to many oil analysts. &#8220;Even as oil rallies, analysts have barely nudged up their price forecasts as they worry that crude&#8217;s recent gains might not be sustainable,&#8221; notes the Wall Street Journal (&#8220;Analysts just aren&#8217;t buying the oil rally&#8221;, April 28).<\/p>\n<p>Many fear hedge funds are pushing up oil prices prematurely, which will lead to a renewed crash when the bubble bursts, as it did after the last big run-up in prices between January and May 2015.<\/p>\n<p>Hedge funds and other money managers have accumulated a record net long position in Brent and WTI futures and options, betting on a further rise in prices equivalent to 656 million barrels of crude.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/oil-prices-kemp-idUSL5N17W5PT\">to Read this article:<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Reuters) Oil prices are becoming dangerously overheated as speculators anticipate a rebalancing of supply and demand that has barely started, according to many oil analysts. &#8220;Even as oil rallies, analysts have barely nudged up their price forecasts as they worry [&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-52428","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52428","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=52428"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52428\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52429,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52428\/revisions\/52429"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}