{"id":62735,"date":"2018-03-12T00:52:33","date_gmt":"2018-03-12T04:52:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=62735"},"modified":"2018-03-14T01:17:43","modified_gmt":"2018-03-14T05:17:43","slug":"hedge-funds-are-raising-u-k-homebuilder-short-bets-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/03\/2018\/hedge-funds-are-raising-u-k-homebuilder-short-bets-again.html","title":{"rendered":"Hedge Funds Are Raising U.K. Homebuilder Short Bets Again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(Bloomberg) Once bitten, twice shy? Not in the case of the hedge funds that are shorting U.K. homebuilders, even after the strategy burned some of their peers in the wake of the Brexit vote.   Firms including Millennium, Marshall Wace and Janus Henderson Group are raising bets against an industry that\u2019s key to Britain\u2019s economy. This comes amid waning optimism about the government\u2019s ability to prop up the market with incentive schemes as well as fears that the U.K.\u2019s looming departure from the European Union will hurt real estate.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2018-03-12\/hedge-funds-are-back-to-boosting-short-bets-on-u-k-homebuilders\">To read this article:<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Bloomberg) Once bitten, twice shy? Not in the case of the hedge funds that are shorting U.K. homebuilders, even after the strategy burned some of their peers in the wake of the Brexit vote. Firms including Millennium, Marshall Wace and [&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-62735","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62735","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=62735"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62735\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62736,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62735\/revisions\/62736"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}