{"id":57477,"date":"2017-04-11T08:44:17","date_gmt":"2017-04-11T12:44:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=57477"},"modified":"2017-04-11T08:44:17","modified_gmt":"2017-04-11T12:44:17","slug":"hedge-funds-turn-net-bearish-on-ags-spurring-hopes-for-price-spikes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/04\/2017\/hedge-funds-turn-net-bearish-on-ags-spurring-hopes-for-price-spikes.html","title":{"rendered":"Hedge Funds Turn Net Bearish on Ags &#8211; Spurring Hopes For Price Spikes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n(Agrimoney) Hedge funds&#8217; renewed pessimism over ag commodity prices took them net bearish on the sector for the first time in more than a year \u2013 raising ideas they may be vulnerable to losses should hiccups beset the spring sowings season.<\/p>\n<p>Managed money, a proxy for speculators, in the week to last Tuesday opened up a net short position of 29,419 contracts in futures and options in the top 13 US-traded agricultural commodities, from corn to sugar, analysis of data from the Commodity Futures Trading Commission regulator shows.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.agrimoney.com\/news\/hedge-funds-turn-net-bearish-on-ags---spurring-hopes-for-price-spikes--10616.html\">To read this article:<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Agrimoney) Hedge funds&#8217; renewed pessimism over ag commodity prices took them net bearish on the sector for the first time in more than a year \u2013 raising ideas they may be vulnerable to losses should hiccups beset the spring sowings [&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-57477","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57477","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=57477"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57477\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57478,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57477\/revisions\/57478"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}