{"id":54291,"date":"2016-09-12T08:40:47","date_gmt":"2016-09-12T12:40:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=54291"},"modified":"2016-09-12T08:40:47","modified_gmt":"2016-09-12T12:40:47","slug":"hedge-funds-cut-bearish-pound-positions-before-boe-rate-decision","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/09\/2016\/hedge-funds-cut-bearish-pound-positions-before-boe-rate-decision.html","title":{"rendered":"Hedge Funds Cut Bearish Pound Positions Before BOE Rate Decision"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(Bloomberg) The pound held a three-day decline as hedge funds and other large speculators cut their bets that the currency will fall for a second week before the Bank of England\u2019s latest policy decision.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s the first back-to-back reduction in so-called net short positions in sterling since Britain voted to leave the European Union in June. The U.K. currency was little changed before a report Tuesday that economists forecast will show annual consumer-price inflation accelerated in August from a year ago at the fastest pace since November 2014.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2016-09-12\/hedge-funds-reduce-bearish-positions-before-boe-rate-decision\">To read this article:<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Bloomberg) The pound held a three-day decline as hedge funds and other large speculators cut their bets that the currency will fall for a second week before the Bank of England\u2019s latest policy decision. That\u2019s the first back-to-back reduction in [&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-54291","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54291","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=54291"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54291\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54292,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54291\/revisions\/54292"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}