{"id":60137,"date":"2017-09-28T10:09:39","date_gmt":"2017-09-28T14:09:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=60137"},"modified":"2017-09-28T10:09:39","modified_gmt":"2017-09-28T14:09:39","slug":"hedge-funds-bet-billions-on-hopes-of-an-abe-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/09\/2017\/hedge-funds-bet-billions-on-hopes-of-an-abe-win.html","title":{"rendered":"Hedge Funds Bet Billions on Hopes of an Abe Win"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n(Bloomberg) In the two weeks before Prime Minister Shinzo Abe called a snap election, foreign investors using the futures market &#8212; which are often hedge funds &#8212; suddenly turned hugely positive on Japanese shares.   Foreigners bought a net 2.1 trillion yen ($19 billion) of Japanese stock futures from Sept. 11 to 22, according to data released by Osaka Exchange Inc. on Thursday and last week. That came after they sold more than $7 billion in cash equities this year through mid-September.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2017-09-28\/hedge-funds-bet-billions-on-japan-stocks-before-abe-called-vote\">To read this article:<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Bloomberg) In the two weeks before Prime Minister Shinzo Abe called a snap election, foreign investors using the futures market &#8212; which are often hedge funds &#8212; suddenly turned hugely positive on Japanese shares. Foreigners bought a net 2.1 trillion [&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-60137","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60137","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=60137"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60137\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60138,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60137\/revisions\/60138"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}