{"id":58153,"date":"2017-05-23T08:29:16","date_gmt":"2017-05-23T12:29:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=58153"},"modified":"2017-05-23T08:29:16","modified_gmt":"2017-05-23T12:29:16","slug":"hedge-fund-reticence-to-cover-shorts-in-grains-bodes-well-for-price-rises","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/05\/2017\/hedge-fund-reticence-to-cover-shorts-in-grains-bodes-well-for-price-rises.html","title":{"rendered":"Hedge Fund Reticence to Cover Shorts in Grains &#8216;Bodes Well For Price Rises&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(Agrimoney) Commentators flagged the potential for grain and soy price gains after hedge funds were revealed to have covered fewer of their short bets than expected \u2013 at a time of growing worries over the dent to North American crop prospects from poor weather. Managed money, a proxy for speculators, in the week to last Tuesday returned to a bearish shift in positioning on the top 13 US-traded agricultural commodities, lifting their net short by nearly 9,000 lots to 163,141 contracts, analysis of regulatory data shows.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.agrimoney.com\/news\/hedge-fund-reticence-to-cover-shorts-in-grains-bodes-well-for-price-rises--10739.html\">To read this article:<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Agrimoney) Commentators flagged the potential for grain and soy price gains after hedge funds were revealed to have covered fewer of their short bets than expected \u2013 at a time of growing worries over the dent to North American crop [&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-58153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58153","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=58153"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58153\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58154,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58153\/revisions\/58154"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}