{"id":59301,"date":"2017-08-04T07:39:44","date_gmt":"2017-08-04T11:39:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=59301"},"modified":"2017-08-04T07:39:44","modified_gmt":"2017-08-04T11:39:44","slug":"saudi-oil-minister-met-with-top-commodity-hedge-funds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/08\/2017\/saudi-oil-minister-met-with-top-commodity-hedge-funds.html","title":{"rendered":"Saudi Oil Minister Met With Top Commodity Hedge Funds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(Bloomberg) Khalid Al-Falih, Saudi Arabia\u2019s energy minister, met in private with some of the world\u2019s top commodity hedge funds in July, taking the unusual step of personally canvassing investor views on the state of the market.<\/p>\n<p>In the past, Saudi Arabian officials have disparaged hedge funds as unhelpful speculators that undermined OPEC\u2019s quest for market stability. Last month\u2019s meetings, described by people familiar with the encounters, signal the world\u2019s largest exporter has reassessed the role of financial investors in the global oil market.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2017-08-03\/saudi-oil-minister-is-said-to-have-met-top-commodity-hedge-funds\">To read this article:<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Bloomberg) Khalid Al-Falih, Saudi Arabia\u2019s energy minister, met in private with some of the world\u2019s top commodity hedge funds in July, taking the unusual step of personally canvassing investor views on the state of the market. In the past, Saudi [&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-59301","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59301","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=59301"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59301\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59302,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59301\/revisions\/59302"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}