{"id":61546,"date":"2017-12-27T07:19:36","date_gmt":"2017-12-27T12:19:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=61546"},"modified":"2017-12-27T07:19:36","modified_gmt":"2017-12-27T12:19:36","slug":"hedge-funds-to-cash-in-if-shops-come-up-short","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/12\/2017\/hedge-funds-to-cash-in-if-shops-come-up-short.html","title":{"rendered":"Hedge Funds to Cash in if Shops Come up Short"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n(Times Online) Hedge funds are poised to profit from any weak post-Christmas trading updates from high-street retailers, which account for half of the top ten most shorted stocks on the London Stock Exchange.   Investors have sharply increased their bets this year against a number of the biggest chains, including Debenhams, Marks &#038; Spencer and Pets At Home, amid expectations that the squeeze on consumer spending power and confidence could hit sales, profits and share prices.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetimes.co.uk\/article\/hedge-funds-to-cash-in-if-shops-come-up-short-8hjthnt5p\">To read this article:<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Times Online) Hedge funds are poised to profit from any weak post-Christmas trading updates from high-street retailers, which account for half of the top ten most shorted stocks on the London Stock Exchange. Investors have sharply increased their bets this [&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-61546","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61546","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=61546"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61546\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61547,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61546\/revisions\/61547"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}