{"id":60687,"date":"2017-11-01T00:07:45","date_gmt":"2017-11-01T04:07:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=60687"},"modified":"2017-11-01T00:07:45","modified_gmt":"2017-11-01T04:07:45","slug":"hedge-funds-wrong-footed-on-sugar-bets-cautioned-over-cattle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/11\/2017\/hedge-funds-wrong-footed-on-sugar-bets-cautioned-over-cattle.html","title":{"rendered":"Hedge Funds Wrong-Footed On Sugar Bets, Cautioned Over Cattle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(Agrimoney) Hedge funds extended bearish bets on agricultural commodities, helped by a record net short in arabica coffee, and selling in sugar which is looking like a strategy in which they are piling up losses. Managed money, a proxy for speculators, expanded its net short position in futures and options in the top 13 US-traded agricultural commodities, from cotton to cattle, by 20,312 contracts in the week to last Tuesday, analysis of data from the Commodity Futures Trading Commission regulator shows&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.agrimoney.com\/news\/hedge-funds-wrong-footed-on-sugar-bets-cautioned-over-cattle-41680\">To read this article:<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Agrimoney) Hedge funds extended bearish bets on agricultural commodities, helped by a record net short in arabica coffee, and selling in sugar which is looking like a strategy in which they are piling up losses. Managed money, a proxy for [&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-60687","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60687","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=60687"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60687\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60688,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60687\/revisions\/60688"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}