{"id":61820,"date":"2018-01-16T01:15:29","date_gmt":"2018-01-16T06:15:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=61820"},"modified":"2018-01-16T01:15:29","modified_gmt":"2018-01-16T06:15:29","slug":"carillion-crisis-hedge-funds-rake-in-tens-of-millions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/01\/2018\/carillion-crisis-hedge-funds-rake-in-tens-of-millions.html","title":{"rendered":"Carillion Crisis: Hedge Funds Rake In Tens Of Millions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n(The Guardian) Hedge funds and other financial speculators have made tens of millions of pounds by quietly betting that Carillion would run into financial distress.<\/p>\n<p>Short-sellers, who make money by gambling that a company\u2019s share price will fall, have been targeting the company since early 2015, but the number of bets reached a peak just before a profit warning last July that signalled the scale of its problems and sent its shares tumbling.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2018\/jan\/14\/carillion-crisis-hedge-funds-rake-in-tens-of-millions\">To read this article:<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(The Guardian) Hedge funds and other financial speculators have made tens of millions of pounds by quietly betting that Carillion would run into financial distress. Short-sellers, who make money by gambling that a company\u2019s share price will fall, have been [&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-61820","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61820","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=61820"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61820\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61821,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61820\/revisions\/61821"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}