{"id":58693,"date":"2017-06-27T07:48:01","date_gmt":"2017-06-27T11:48:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=58693"},"modified":"2017-06-27T07:48:01","modified_gmt":"2017-06-27T11:48:01","slug":"hedge-funds-hike-bearish-bets-on-softs-to-record-high-heralding-price-gains","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/06\/2017\/hedge-funds-hike-bearish-bets-on-softs-to-record-high-heralding-price-gains.html","title":{"rendered":"Hedge Funds Hike Bearish Bets on Softs to Record High &#8211; &#8216;Heralding Price Gains&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n(Agrimoney) Hedge funds turned record bearish on soft commodities, raising ideas that prices are vulnerable to an upward spike from a change in sentiment, but continued to cut short bets on wheat, crystallising losses. Managed money, a proxy for speculators, trimmed its net short position in futures and options in the top 13 US-traded agricultural commodities, from corn to cotton, by just 14 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-hike-bearish-bets-on-softs-to-record-high---heralding-price-gains--10831.html\">To read this article:<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Agrimoney) Hedge funds turned record bearish on soft commodities, raising ideas that prices are vulnerable to an upward spike from a change in sentiment, but continued to cut short bets on wheat, crystallising losses. Managed money, a proxy for speculators, [&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-58693","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58693","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=58693"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58693\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58694,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58693\/revisions\/58694"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}