{"id":6105,"date":"2007-05-25T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2007-05-25T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T04:00:00","slug":"call-for-progress-on-hedge-funds-doha-trade-round","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/05\/2007\/call-for-progress-on-hedge-funds-doha-trade-round.html","title":{"rendered":"Call for progress on hedge funds, Doha trade round"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>  Daily Times- German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Thursday reiterated her call for increased transparency among hedge funds and for progress in the stalled Doha round of world trade talks.<\/p>\n<p>  \u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00c5\u201cOn the one hand, hedge funds increase the efficiency of the financial markets, but there\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u201e\u00a2s not enough transparency,\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00c2\u009d Merkel said in a speech to German parliament.<\/p>\n<p>  Such transparency was \u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00cb\u0153urgently necessary\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u201e\u00a2 to boost \u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00cb\u0153confidence in the economy,\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00e2\u201e\u00a2 Merkel argued. \u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00c5\u201cDebate about transparency for hedge funds is indispensable.\u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00c2\u009d<\/p>\n<p>  Germany, the current president of the Group of Eight, is spearheading a campaign to rein in the trillion-dollar hedge fund industry, arguing that tighter regulation was necessary to prevent a  meltdown of the entire global financial system should one or more of the funds collapse.<\/p>\n<p>  <strong><a href=  \"http:\/\/news.google.com\/news\/url?sa=T&amp;ct=us\/6-0&amp;fd=R&amp;url=http:\/\/www.dailytimes.com.pk\/default.asp%3Fpage%3D2007%255C05%255C25%255Cstory_25-5-2007_pg5_24&amp;cid=1116168407&amp;ei=F8BWRpa6AovC0gH94vDMDQ\">  Read Complete Article<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Daily Times- German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Thursday reiterated her call for increased transparency among hedge funds and for progress in the stalled Doha round of world trade talks. \u00c3\u00a2\u00e2\u201a\u00ac\u00c5\u201cOn the one hand, hedge funds increase the efficiency of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6105","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6105","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6105"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6105\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}