{"id":62445,"date":"2018-02-23T00:08:24","date_gmt":"2018-02-23T05:08:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=62445"},"modified":"2018-02-22T23:22:35","modified_gmt":"2018-02-23T04:22:35","slug":"bridgewaters-bet-against-europe-shines-light-on-patchy-short-selling-rules","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/02\/2018\/bridgewaters-bet-against-europe-shines-light-on-patchy-short-selling-rules.html","title":{"rendered":"Bridgewater\u2019s Bet Against Europe Shines Light on Patchy Short-Selling Rules"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n(Reuters) The world\u2019s largest hedge fund Bridgewater Associates caused a stir last week when it disclosed it had made $22 billion (15.78 billion pounds) worth of bets against European companies, including giants such as Unilever (ULVR.L) and Siemens (SIEGn.DE). But patchy rules on the practice known as \u201cshort-selling\u201d mean it is difficult to tell if Bridgewater\u2019s positions are a bet against Europe specifically, or broader scepticism on global equities.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/uk-hedge-funds-short-selling-explainer\/bridgewaters-bet-against-europe-shines-light-on-patchy-short-selling-rules-idUSKCN1G51E4\">To read this article:<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Reuters) The world\u2019s largest hedge fund Bridgewater Associates caused a stir last week when it disclosed it had made $22 billion (15.78 billion pounds) worth of bets against European companies, including giants such as Unilever (ULVR.L) and Siemens (SIEGn.DE). But [&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-62445","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62445","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=62445"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62445\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62446,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62445\/revisions\/62446"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}