{"id":59004,"date":"2017-07-18T07:24:24","date_gmt":"2017-07-18T11:24:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=59004"},"modified":"2017-07-18T07:24:24","modified_gmt":"2017-07-18T11:24:24","slug":"hedge-funds-buy-grains-at-record-pace-as-weather-woes-threaten-crops","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/07\/2017\/hedge-funds-buy-grains-at-record-pace-as-weather-woes-threaten-crops.html","title":{"rendered":"Hedge Funds Buy Grains at Record Pace, as Weather Woes Threaten Crops"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(Agrimoney) Expectations grew of a pullback in grain prices after data showed hedge funds having already been &#8220;much, much more active&#8221; in buying than had been expected, provoking doubts over appetite for further purchases.   Managed money, a proxy for speculators, hiked its net long position in futures and options in the top 13 US-traded agricultural commodities, from corn to sugar, by 330,023 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-buy-grains-at-record-pace-as-weather-woes-threaten-crops--10881.html\">To read this article:<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Agrimoney) Expectations grew of a pullback in grain prices after data showed hedge funds having already been &#8220;much, much more active&#8221; in buying than had been expected, provoking doubts over appetite for further purchases. 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-59004","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59004","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=59004"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59004\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59005,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59004\/revisions\/59005"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59004"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}