{"id":57122,"date":"2017-03-21T09:05:39","date_gmt":"2017-03-21T13:05:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=57122"},"modified":"2017-03-21T09:05:39","modified_gmt":"2017-03-21T13:05:39","slug":"hedge-funds-massive-ag-selldown-spurs-hopes-of-buying-to-come","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/03\/2017\/hedge-funds-massive-ag-selldown-spurs-hopes-of-buying-to-come.html","title":{"rendered":"Hedge Funds&#8217; &#8216;Massive&#8217; Ag Selldown Spurs Hopes of Buying to Come"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n(Agrimoney) Hedge funds turned bearish on agricultural commodities en masse, undertaking their biggest switch short in positioning on record, led by grains \u2013 in which they may ironically have boosts the chances of price gains. Managed money, a proxy for speculators, slashed its net long position in futures and options in the top 13 US-traded agricultural commodities, from corn to sugar, by 232,217 contracts in the week to last Tuesday, analysis of data from the Commodity Futures Trading Commission regulator shows.<\/p>\n<p>The cut in the net long \u2013 the extent to which long bets, which profit when values rise, exceed short holdings, which benefit when prices fall \u2013 was the largest on records going back to 2006.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.agrimoney.com\/news\/hedge-funds-massive-ag-selldown-spurs-hopes-of-buying-to-come--10551.html\">To read this article:<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Agrimoney) Hedge funds turned bearish on agricultural commodities en masse, undertaking their biggest switch short in positioning on record, led by grains \u2013 in which they may ironically have boosts the chances of price gains. Managed money, a proxy for [&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-57122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57122","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=57122"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57122\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57123,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57122\/revisions\/57123"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}