{"id":58799,"date":"2017-07-05T00:50:31","date_gmt":"2017-07-05T04:50:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=58799"},"modified":"2017-07-05T00:50:31","modified_gmt":"2017-07-05T04:50:31","slug":"hedge-funds-wrong-footed-again-by-downbeat-grain-bets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/07\/2017\/hedge-funds-wrong-footed-again-by-downbeat-grain-bets.html","title":{"rendered":"Hedge Funds Wrong-Footed, Again, by Downbeat Grain Bets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n(Agrimoney) Funds are likely to be forced into a round of short-covering in grains, putting further upward pressure on futures, after being caught out again by betting on lower prices just ahead of bullish news. Managed money, a proxy for speculators, cut its net short position in futures and options in the top 13 US-traded agricultural commodities, from arabica coffee to live cattle, by 132,124 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-wrong-footed-again-by-downbeat-grain-bets--10847.html\">To read this article:<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Agrimoney) Funds are likely to be forced into a round of short-covering in grains, putting further upward pressure on futures, after being caught out again by betting on lower prices just ahead of bullish news. Managed money, a proxy for [&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-58799","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58799","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=58799"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58799\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58800,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58799\/revisions\/58800"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}