{"id":55543,"date":"2016-12-07T10:09:27","date_gmt":"2016-12-07T15:09:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=55543"},"modified":"2016-12-07T10:09:27","modified_gmt":"2016-12-07T15:09:27","slug":"hedge-funds-lift-bullish-ag-bets-cotton-soy-hard-wheat-in-demand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/12\/2016\/hedge-funds-lift-bullish-ag-bets-cotton-soy-hard-wheat-in-demand.html","title":{"rendered":"Hedge Funds Lift Bullish Ag Bets. Cotton, Soy, Hard Wheat In Demand"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n(Agrimoney) Hedge funds extended bullish bets in agricultural commodities, helped by a record net long in cotton and strong buying too in soybeans \u2013 a bet whose fate may be largely determined by weather in Argentina.<\/p>\n<p>Managed money, a proxy for speculators, lifted its net long position in futures and options in the top 13 US-traded agricultural commodities, from corn to sugar, by 31,139 contracts in the week to last Tuesday, analysis of data from the Commodity Futures Trading Commission regulator shows.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.agrimoney.com\/news\/hedge-funds-lift-bullish-ag-bets.-cotton-soy-hard-wheat-in-demand--10231.html\">To read this article:<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Agrimoney) Hedge funds extended bullish bets in agricultural commodities, helped by a record net long in cotton and strong buying too in soybeans \u2013 a bet whose fate may be largely determined by weather in Argentina. Managed money, a proxy [&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-55543","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55543","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=55543"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55543\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55544,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55543\/revisions\/55544"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}