{"id":62617,"date":"2018-03-05T01:05:06","date_gmt":"2018-03-05T06:05:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=62617"},"modified":"2018-03-06T23:42:35","modified_gmt":"2018-03-07T04:42:35","slug":"provident-financial-share-surge-makes-it-a-proper-short-again-as-hedge-funds-sense-a-fresh-opportunity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/03\/2018\/provident-financial-share-surge-makes-it-a-proper-short-again-as-hedge-funds-sense-a-fresh-opportunity.html","title":{"rendered":"Provident Financial Share Surge Makes It &#8220;A Proper Short Again&#8221; As Hedge Funds Sense A Fresh Opportunity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(City A.M) Hedge funds have upped bets against Provident Financial, hoping to capitalise on any negative reaction to the sub-prime lender&#8217;s recent share price surge&#8230;Provident&#8217;s market value leapt over 70 per cent on Tuesday. While soaring to around 1,000p a share, its stock market value remains less than a third of what it was a year ago.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cityam.com\/281612\/provident-financial-share-surge-makes-proper-short-again\">To read this article:<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(City A.M) Hedge funds have upped bets against Provident Financial, hoping to capitalise on any negative reaction to the sub-prime lender&#8217;s recent share price surge&#8230;Provident&#8217;s market value leapt over 70 per cent on Tuesday. While soaring to around 1,000p 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-62617","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62617","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=62617"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62617\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62618,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62617\/revisions\/62618"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}