{"id":63569,"date":"2018-05-06T00:09:09","date_gmt":"2018-05-06T04:09:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=63569"},"modified":"2018-05-08T00:24:12","modified_gmt":"2018-05-08T04:24:12","slug":"short-sellers-call-out-charm-bracelet-water-bottle-makers-at-conference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/05\/2018\/short-sellers-call-out-charm-bracelet-water-bottle-makers-at-conference.html","title":{"rendered":"Short-Sellers Call Out Charm Bracelet, Water Bottle Makers at Conference"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(Reuters) Hedge fund managers looking to profit from falling share prices took center stage at a New York conference on Thursday, zeroing in on makers of water bottles, charm bracelets and other consumer companies. Years of strong equity gains have battered so-called short-sellers &#8211; investors who sell borrowed stocks and hope to make a profit by buying them back for less later on &#8211; but recent market volatility has raised their hopes.   <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/hedgefunds-shorting\/update-1-short-sellers-call-out-charm-bracelet-water-bottle-makers-at-conference-idUSL1N1SA12R\">To read this article:<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Reuters) Hedge fund managers looking to profit from falling share prices took center stage at a New York conference on Thursday, zeroing in on makers of water bottles, charm bracelets and other consumer companies. Years of strong equity gains have [&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-63569","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63569","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=63569"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63569\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63570,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63569\/revisions\/63570"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}