{"id":63370,"date":"2018-04-23T00:07:02","date_gmt":"2018-04-23T04:07:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=63370"},"modified":"2018-04-25T01:03:00","modified_gmt":"2018-04-25T05:03:00","slug":"hedge-funds-make-historic-and-increasingly-desperate-fx-bond-bets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/04\/2018\/hedge-funds-make-historic-and-increasingly-desperate-fx-bond-bets.html","title":{"rendered":"Hedge funds make historic and increasingly desperate FX, bond bets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(Reuters) Hamstrung by a renewed slump in volatility and lack of clear market direction, FX and bond speculators are making historically big bets on a lower dollar and higher yields. It\u2019s an increasingly desperate gamble, particularly on the dollar. Major exchange rates have been constrained within ever-narrowing ranges in recent weeks, and hedge funds\u2019 record bet on the euro simply isn\u2019t paying off.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/uk.reuters.com\/article\/uk-global-hedgefunds-dollar\/commentary-hedge-funds-make-historic-and-increasingly-desperate-fx-bond-bets-idUKKBN1HU1KK\">To read this article:<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Reuters) Hamstrung by a renewed slump in volatility and lack of clear market direction, FX and bond speculators are making historically big bets on a lower dollar and higher yields. It\u2019s an increasingly desperate gamble, particularly on the dollar. Major [&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-63370","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63370","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=63370"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63370\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63371,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63370\/revisions\/63371"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}