{"id":53718,"date":"2016-08-02T06:37:37","date_gmt":"2016-08-02T10:37:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=53718"},"modified":"2016-08-02T06:37:37","modified_gmt":"2016-08-02T10:37:37","slug":"hedge-funds-raise-bearish-pound-bets-to-record-before-boe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/08\/2016\/hedge-funds-raise-bearish-pound-bets-to-record-before-boe.html","title":{"rendered":"Hedge Funds Raise Bearish Pound Bets to Record Before BOE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n(Bloomberg) Hedge funds and other large speculators have boosted their bearish bets against the pound to the most since records began in 1992, according to U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission data. A U.K. report Monday suggested they may be right. Manufacturing shrank more in July than initially forecast, adding to speculation that the Bank of England will cut interest rates on Aug. 4 amid signs that Britain\u2019s decision in June to leave the European Union is hitting the U.K. harder than previously envisaged.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2016-08-01\/hedge-funds-raise-bearish-pound-bets-to-record-before-boe-chart\">To read this article:<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Bloomberg) Hedge funds and other large speculators have boosted their bearish bets against the pound to the most since records began in 1992, according to U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission data. A U.K. report Monday suggested they may be right. [&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-53718","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53718","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=53718"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53718\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53719,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53718\/revisions\/53719"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}