{"id":63960,"date":"2018-06-01T01:14:45","date_gmt":"2018-06-01T05:14:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=63960"},"modified":"2018-06-01T01:14:45","modified_gmt":"2018-06-01T05:14:45","slug":"italian-imbroglio-splits-hedge-funds-on-bank-bets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/06\/2018\/italian-imbroglio-splits-hedge-funds-on-bank-bets.html","title":{"rendered":"Italian Imbroglio Splits Hedge Funds on Bank Bets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(Reuters) Hedge funds are split on how to position billions of dollars in bets they have taken on Italian banks as the country\u2019s political tumult takes its toll on bonds, shares and the euro.Although hedge funds have a combined 1 billion euro ($1.2 billion) bet against Italy\u2019s top 10 banks, these so-called \u2018shorts\u2019 have been rising and falling since the election in March which led to the political impasse. These \u2018short\u2019 positions are driven by the expectation that bank stocks will fall and that they can be bought back at a lower price in the future to make a profit.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-hedgefunds-italy\/italian-imbroglio-splits-hedge-funds-on-bank-bets-idUSKCN1IV1N8\">To read this article:<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Reuters) Hedge funds are split on how to position billions of dollars in bets they have taken on Italian banks as the country\u2019s political tumult takes its toll on bonds, shares and the euro.Although hedge funds have a combined 1 [&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-63960","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63960","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=63960"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63960\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63961,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63960\/revisions\/63961"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}