{"id":54408,"date":"2016-09-19T07:04:42","date_gmt":"2016-09-19T11:04:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=54408"},"modified":"2016-09-19T07:04:42","modified_gmt":"2016-09-19T11:04:42","slug":"hedge-funds-cut-bearish-pound-bets-before-currency-slides","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/09\/2016\/hedge-funds-cut-bearish-pound-bets-before-currency-slides.html","title":{"rendered":"Hedge Funds Cut Bearish Pound Bets Before Currency Slides:"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(Bloomberg) Hedge funds and money managers trimmed net bearish positions on pound futures for the third week, missing out as the currency fell 2 percent this week. Bets that sterling would fall outnumbered bullish wagers by 82,821 in the week to Sept. 13, a decline of almost 8 percent from a week earlier, according to data from the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2016-09-19\/hedge-funds-cut-bearish-pound-bets-before-currency-slides-chart\">To read this article:<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Bloomberg) Hedge funds and money managers trimmed net bearish positions on pound futures for the third week, missing out as the currency fell 2 percent this week. Bets that sterling would fall outnumbered bullish wagers by 82,821 in the week [&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-54408","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54408","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=54408"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54408\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54409,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54408\/revisions\/54409"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}