{"id":57232,"date":"2017-03-28T08:27:48","date_gmt":"2017-03-28T12:27:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=57232"},"modified":"2017-03-28T08:27:48","modified_gmt":"2017-03-28T12:27:48","slug":"hedge-funds-cut-bullish-ag-bets-as-trumpflation-trade-reverses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/03\/2017\/hedge-funds-cut-bullish-ag-bets-as-trumpflation-trade-reverses.html","title":{"rendered":"Hedge Funds Cut Bullish Ag Bets, as &#8216;Trumpflation Trade&#8217; Reverses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(Agrimoney) Hedge funds cut their bullish betting on ags to the lowest in nearly a year, regulators revealed, amid growing doubts over the &#8220;Trumpflation&#8221; trade \u2013 but potentially setting up grain markets for hefty volatility later this week. Managed money, a proxy for speculators, chopped its net long position in futures and options in the top 13 US-traded agricultural commodities, from corn to sugar, by 151,393 contracts in the week to last Tuesday, analysis of data from the Commodity Futures Trading Commission regulator shows.<\/p>\n<p>The cut reduced the net long \u2013 the extent to which long bets, which profit when values rise, exceed short holdings, which benefit when prices fall \u2013 to 233,242 contracts, the lowest since early April last year.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.agrimoney.com\/news\/hedge-funds-cut-bullish-ag-bets-as-trumpflation-trade-reverses--10577.html\">To read this article:<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Agrimoney) Hedge funds cut their bullish betting on ags to the lowest in nearly a year, regulators revealed, amid growing doubts over the &#8220;Trumpflation&#8221; trade \u2013 but potentially setting up grain markets for hefty volatility later this week. Managed money, [&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-57232","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57232","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=57232"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57232\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57233,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57232\/revisions\/57233"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}