{"id":53155,"date":"2016-06-22T11:02:57","date_gmt":"2016-06-22T15:02:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=53155"},"modified":"2016-06-22T11:02:57","modified_gmt":"2016-06-22T15:02:57","slug":"hedge-funds-lift-bullish-ag-bets-to-2-year-top-raising-scope-for-selling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/06\/2016\/hedge-funds-lift-bullish-ag-bets-to-2-year-top-raising-scope-for-selling.html","title":{"rendered":"Hedge Funds Lift Bullish Ag Bets to 2-Year Top &#8211; Raising Scope for Selling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(Agrimoney) posted on Tue 21 Jun 2016   Permalink   Print<\/p>\n<p>Hedge funds hiked their net long in agricultural commodities to the highest in more than two years, led by the most bullish positioning in softs since 2008 \u2013 but providing ammunition for the selling which set in on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Managed money, a proxy for speculators, raised by more than 107,000 contracts its net long position in futures and options in the main 13 US-traded agricultural commodities in the 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-lift-bullish-ag-bets-to-2-year-top---raising-scope-for-selling--9669.html\">To read this article:<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Agrimoney) posted on Tue 21 Jun 2016 Permalink Print Hedge funds hiked their net long in agricultural commodities to the highest in more than two years, led by the most bullish positioning in softs since 2008 \u2013 but providing ammunition [&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-53155","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53155","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=53155"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53155\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53156,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53155\/revisions\/53156"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}