{"id":5816,"date":"2007-03-16T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2007-03-16T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T04:00:00","slug":"credit-turbulence-puts-hedge-funds-on-the-spot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/03\/2007\/credit-turbulence-puts-hedge-funds-on-the-spot.html","title":{"rendered":"Credit Turbulence Puts Hedge Funds on the Spot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>  March 16 (Bloomberg) &#8212; Are hedge funds really the disruptive, destabilizing force their critics make them out to be?<\/p>\n<p>  Or do these free-wheeling partnerships of wealthy and institutional investors actually reduce volatility and help make the financial markets run smoother?<\/p>\n<p>  Those long-debated questions may soon be put to a telling real-life test. If credit turmoil spreads from the carnage in the subprime mortgage business, hedge funds stand to become the featured  players in a heroes-or-villains drama.<\/p>\n<p>  It all depends on how events play out in the stock, bond, currency and commodity markets. Should the shakeup that began in late February turn into a messy, drawn-out affair, hedge funds are handy  candidates for blame.<\/p>\n<p><strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.google.com\/news\/url?sa=T&amp;ct=us\/3-0&amp;fd=R&amp;url=http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/apps\/news%3Fpid%3D20601039%26refer%3Dcolumnist_currier%26sid%3DaWti1NqqiC8o&amp;cid=0&amp;ei=o476RdqALIygsQH_r-CmCw\">Read Complete Article<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>March 16 (Bloomberg) &#8212; Are hedge funds really the disruptive, destabilizing force their critics make them out to be? Or do these free-wheeling partnerships of wealthy and institutional investors actually reduce volatility and help make the financial markets run smoother? [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5816","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5816","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5816"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5816\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}