{"id":59420,"date":"2017-08-11T03:07:59","date_gmt":"2017-08-11T07:07:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=59420"},"modified":"2017-08-11T03:07:59","modified_gmt":"2017-08-11T07:07:59","slug":"hedge-funds-score-big-win-as-north-korea-nuclear-risk-is-raised","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/08\/2017\/hedge-funds-score-big-win-as-north-korea-nuclear-risk-is-raised.html","title":{"rendered":"Hedge Funds Score Big Win As North Korea Nuclear Risk Is Raised"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(CNBC) An obscure safety trade against fallout from a North Korean nuclear attack leaped Wednesday to its highest in more than a year.   Hedge funds bought South Korea&#8217;s five-year credit default swap, sending the cost of protection against the country&#8217;s inability to pay back loans up 8.63 percent to 62.74, its highest since June 2016.   As of August 2016, S&#038;P had an AA credit rating and a stable outlook for South Korea.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2017\/08\/09\/hedge-funds-score-big-win-on-trade-as-north-korea-nuclear-risk-is-raised.html\">To read this article:<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(CNBC) An obscure safety trade against fallout from a North Korean nuclear attack leaped Wednesday to its highest in more than a year. Hedge funds bought South Korea&#8217;s five-year credit default swap, sending the cost of protection against the country&#8217;s [&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-59420","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59420","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=59420"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59420\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59421,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59420\/revisions\/59421"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}