{"id":56477,"date":"2017-02-07T09:04:12","date_gmt":"2017-02-07T14:04:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=56477"},"modified":"2017-02-07T09:04:12","modified_gmt":"2017-02-07T14:04:12","slug":"hedge-funds-slash-bullish-ag-bets-even-as-history-suggests-rally-ahead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/02\/2017\/hedge-funds-slash-bullish-ag-bets-even-as-history-suggests-rally-ahead.html","title":{"rendered":"Hedge Funds Slash Bullish Ag Bets &#8211; Even as History &#8216;Suggests Rally Ahead&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n(Agrimoney.com) Hedge funds slashed bullish bets on agricultural commodities, turning record bearish on cocoa and selling grains heavily \u2013 in a trend deemed supportive to prices, which some analysis says may be heading for a long-term recovery.<\/p>\n<p>Managed money, a proxy for speculators, slashed its net long position in futures and options in the top 13 US-traded agricultural commodities, from wheat to sugar, by 90,364 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-slash-bullish-ag-bets---even-as-history-suggests-rally-ahead--10415.html\">To read this article:<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Agrimoney.com) Hedge funds slashed bullish bets on agricultural commodities, turning record bearish on cocoa and selling grains heavily \u2013 in a trend deemed supportive to prices, which some analysis says may be heading for a long-term recovery. Managed money, a [&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-56477","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56477","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=56477"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56477\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56478,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56477\/revisions\/56478"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}