{"id":52479,"date":"2016-05-06T10:13:05","date_gmt":"2016-05-06T14:13:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=52479"},"modified":"2016-05-06T10:13:26","modified_gmt":"2016-05-06T14:13:26","slug":"risks-rise-as-hedge-funds-place-record-bet-on-oil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/05\/2016\/risks-rise-as-hedge-funds-place-record-bet-on-oil.html","title":{"rendered":"Risks Rise as Hedge Funds Place Record Bet on Oil"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(Reuters) Hedge funds increased their net long positions in Brent and WTI derivatives by 7 million barrels to a record 663 million barrels in the week ending April 26.<\/p>\n<p>Even though oil prices have already risen by roughly $20 per barrel (70 percent) from their low in January, hedge funds are more bullish than at any time since oil prices started slumping in the summer of 2014.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-oil-prices-kemp-idUSKCN0XU23V\">To read this article:<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Reuters) Hedge funds increased their net long positions in Brent and WTI derivatives by 7 million barrels to a record 663 million barrels in the week ending April 26. Even though oil prices have already risen by roughly $20 per [&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-52479","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52479","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=52479"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52479\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52480,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52479\/revisions\/52480"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}