{"id":60925,"date":"2017-11-15T09:25:11","date_gmt":"2017-11-15T14:25:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=60925"},"modified":"2017-11-15T09:25:11","modified_gmt":"2017-11-15T14:25:11","slug":"hedge-funds-lift-livestock-longs-to-record-high-but-coffee-vulnerable-to-short-covering","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/11\/2017\/hedge-funds-lift-livestock-longs-to-record-high-but-coffee-vulnerable-to-short-covering.html","title":{"rendered":"Hedge Funds Lift Livestock Longs To Record High &#8211; But Coffee &#8216;Vulnerable to Short-Covering&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(Agrimoney) Hedge funds curtailed their negative position on agricultural commodity prices, as bets on rising livestock values more than outweighed selling in grains &#8211; and coffee, now deemed \u201csignificantly vulnerable to short covering\u201d   Managed money, a proxy for speculators, reduced its net short position in futures and options in the top 13 US-traded agricultural commodities, from cattle to wheat, by 22,049 contracts in the week to last Tuesday, analysis of data from the Commodity Futures Trading Commission regulator shows.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.agrimoney.com\/news\/hedge-funds-lift-livestock-longs-to-record-high---but-coffee-vulnerable-to-short-covering-42210\">To read this article:<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Agrimoney) Hedge funds curtailed their negative position on agricultural commodity prices, as bets on rising livestock values more than outweighed selling in grains &#8211; and coffee, now deemed \u201csignificantly vulnerable to short covering\u201d Managed money, a proxy for speculators, reduced [&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-60925","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60925","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=60925"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60925\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60926,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60925\/revisions\/60926"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}