{"id":62158,"date":"2018-02-05T00:44:28","date_gmt":"2018-02-05T05:44:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=62158"},"modified":"2018-02-07T02:16:18","modified_gmt":"2018-02-07T07:16:18","slug":"hedge-funds-are-making-an-unprecedented-bet-thats-signaling-more-stock-market-pain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/02\/2018\/hedge-funds-are-making-an-unprecedented-bet-thats-signaling-more-stock-market-pain.html","title":{"rendered":"Hedge funds are making an unprecedented bet that&#8217;s signaling more stock market pain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(The Business Insider) Some of the market&#8217;s most influential investors are making an unprecedented bet that near-term bond yields will climb \u2014 and that could continue heaping pressure upon stock traders. Hedge funds and other large speculators are holding a net-short position on 2-year Treasurys that&#8217;s the biggest on record, according to US Commodity Futures Trading Commission data. That implies a historical degree of bullishness on short-term yields.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/stock-market-selloff-hedge-funds-making-unprecedented-bet-signaling-more-pain-2018-2?r=UK&#038;IR=T\">To read this article:<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(The Business Insider) Some of the market&#8217;s most influential investors are making an unprecedented bet that near-term bond yields will climb \u2014 and that could continue heaping pressure upon stock traders. Hedge funds and other large speculators are holding a [&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-62158","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62158","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=62158"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62158\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62159,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62158\/revisions\/62159"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}