{"id":58340,"date":"2017-06-06T09:37:00","date_gmt":"2017-06-06T13:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=58340"},"modified":"2017-06-06T09:37:00","modified_gmt":"2017-06-06T13:37:00","slug":"hedge-funds-near-record-short-on-ags-spurring-hopes-for-powerful-rally","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/06\/2017\/hedge-funds-near-record-short-on-ags-spurring-hopes-for-powerful-rally.html","title":{"rendered":"Hedge Funds Near-record Short on Ags &#8211; Spurring Hopes for &#8216;Powerful Rally&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n(Agrimoney.com) Hedge fund bets on falling agricultural commodities are at their second largest on record, with bearish position on grains actually at an all-time high \u2013 strengthening ideas that prices could be poised for a sharp rebound.<\/p>\n<p>Managed money, a proxy for speculators, expanded its net short position in futures and options in the top 13 US-traded agricultural commodities, from corn to sugar, by 89,453 contracts in the week to last Tuesday, analysis of data from the Commodity Futures Trading Commission regulator shows.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.agrimoney.com\/news\/hedge-funds-near-record-short-on-ags---spurring-hopes-for-powerful-rally--10778.html\">To read this article:<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Agrimoney.com) Hedge fund bets on falling agricultural commodities are at their second largest on record, with bearish position on grains actually at an all-time high \u2013 strengthening ideas that prices could be poised for a sharp rebound. Managed money, a [&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-58340","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58340","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=58340"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58340\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58341,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58340\/revisions\/58341"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}