{"id":59480,"date":"2017-08-15T09:05:03","date_gmt":"2017-08-15T13:05:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=59480"},"modified":"2017-08-15T09:05:03","modified_gmt":"2017-08-15T13:05:03","slug":"shorting-china-commodities-very-compelling-says-hedge-fund","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/08\/2017\/shorting-china-commodities-very-compelling-says-hedge-fund.html","title":{"rendered":"Shorting China Commodities \u2018Very Compelling\u2019 Says Hedge Fund"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n(Bloomberg) The bubble may be about to burst for commodities pumped up by China\u2019s efforts to reform its steel industry, presenting a compelling opportunity for investors to sell, according to hedge fund Academia Capital.   While speculative buying has boosted raw materials from iron ore to zinc, those gains may reverse as growth slows into 2018, according to Ivan Szpakowski, chief investment officer at the hedge fund. Szpakowski predicted oil would be the \u201ctrade of the year\u201d in January 2016, just before Brent prices slumped to a 12-year low and then doubled to end the year near $57 a barrel.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-investment-funds-idUSKCN1AU1X1\">To read this article:<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Bloomberg) The bubble may be about to burst for commodities pumped up by China\u2019s efforts to reform its steel industry, presenting a compelling opportunity for investors to sell, according to hedge fund Academia Capital. While speculative buying has boosted raw [&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-59480","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59480","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=59480"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59480\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59482,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59480\/revisions\/59482"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}