{"id":56693,"date":"2017-02-21T09:15:39","date_gmt":"2017-02-21T14:15:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=56693"},"modified":"2017-02-21T09:15:39","modified_gmt":"2017-02-21T14:15:39","slug":"hedge-funds-hike-bullish-ag-bets-spurring-fears-of-grains-selldown-ahead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/02\/2017\/hedge-funds-hike-bullish-ag-bets-spurring-fears-of-grains-selldown-ahead.html","title":{"rendered":"Hedge Funds Hike Bullish Ag Bets &#8211; Spurring Fears of Grains Selldown Ahead"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(Agrimoney) Hedge funds hiked their bullish bets in agricultural commodities near to the highest in nine months, led by a buying spree in grains \u2013 which commentators cautioned could herald revived selling pressure.<\/p>\n<p>Managed money, a proxy for speculators, boosted its net long position in futures and options in the top 13 US-traded agricultural commodities, from corn to sugar, by 118,149 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-hike-bullish-ag-bets---spurring-fears-of-grains-selldown-ahead--10458.html\">To read this article:<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Agrimoney) Hedge funds hiked their bullish bets in agricultural commodities near to the highest in nine months, led by a buying spree in grains \u2013 which commentators cautioned could herald revived selling pressure. Managed money, a proxy for speculators, boosted [&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-56693","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56693","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=56693"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56693\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56694,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56693\/revisions\/56694"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}