{"id":58721,"date":"2017-06-28T08:36:43","date_gmt":"2017-06-28T12:36:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=58721"},"modified":"2017-06-28T08:36:43","modified_gmt":"2017-06-28T12:36:43","slug":"hedge-funds-hold-near-record-short-positions-in-petroleum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/06\/2017\/hedge-funds-hold-near-record-short-positions-in-petroleum.html","title":{"rendered":"Hedge Funds Hold Near-Record Short Positions In Petroleum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(Reuters) Oil prices have been rising gently during the past four trading sessions despite concerns about the continued rise in the U.S. rig count and enormous excess inventories. Front-month Brent futures prices are up by about $2 a barrel since touching a low of $44 on June 21, which could herald a break in the downtrend that had been in place since late May.<\/p>\n<p>Rising prices most likely reflect hedge funds covering some short positions rather than a fundamental reappraisal of the outlook for supply, demand and inventories.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/in.reuters.com\/article\/oil-hedgefunds-kemp-idINKBN19I1CX\">To read this article:<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Reuters) Oil prices have been rising gently during the past four trading sessions despite concerns about the continued rise in the U.S. rig count and enormous excess inventories. Front-month Brent futures prices are up by about $2 a barrel since [&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-58721","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58721","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=58721"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58721\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58722,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58721\/revisions\/58722"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}