{"id":61638,"date":"2018-01-04T00:18:46","date_gmt":"2018-01-04T05:18:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=61638"},"modified":"2018-01-04T00:18:46","modified_gmt":"2018-01-04T05:18:46","slug":"hedge-funds-head-into-2018-record-short-in-ags-despite-hopes-for-commodities-upturn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/01\/2018\/hedge-funds-head-into-2018-record-short-in-ags-despite-hopes-for-commodities-upturn.html","title":{"rendered":"Hedge Funds Head Into 2018 Record Short in Ags &#8211; Despite Hopes for Commodities Upturn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n(Agrimoney) Hedge funds headed in 2018 record net short in agricultural commodities, clashing with ideas that the year could prove a strong one for raw materials as a whole, to judge by relative valuations, and economic and currency forecasts.   Managed money, a proxy for speculators, lifted its net short position in futures and options in the top 13 US-traded agricultural commodities, from corn to sugar, by 11,946 contracts in the week to December 26, analysis of data from the Commodity Futures Trading Commission regulator shows.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.agrimoney.com\/news\/hedge-funds-head-into-2018-record-short-in-ags---despite-hopes-for-commodities-upturn-48252\">To read this article:<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Agrimoney) Hedge funds headed in 2018 record net short in agricultural commodities, clashing with ideas that the year could prove a strong one for raw materials as a whole, to judge by relative valuations, and economic and currency forecasts. Managed [&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-61638","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61638","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=61638"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61638\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61639,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61638\/revisions\/61639"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}