{"id":64187,"date":"2018-06-15T01:51:52","date_gmt":"2018-06-15T05:51:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=64187"},"modified":"2018-06-15T01:51:52","modified_gmt":"2018-06-15T05:51:52","slug":"banks-get-distracted-by-the-world-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/06\/2018\/banks-get-distracted-by-the-world-cup.html","title":{"rendered":"Banks Get Distracted by the World Cup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(Bloomberg) The World Cup kicks off today, minutes after this newsletter publishes, which means that there will be no finance news for the next month. That will make this newsletter a bit of a slog, sorry. So I guess let\u2019s talk about the World Cup? There is a long tradition of investment banks publishing research notes in which they predict the winner of the World Cup using some sort of half-baked statistical method.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/view\/articles\/2018-06-14\/banks-get-distracted-by-the-world-cup\">To read this article:<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Bloomberg) The World Cup kicks off today, minutes after this newsletter publishes, which means that there will be no finance news for the next month. That will make this newsletter a bit of a slog, sorry. So I guess let\u2019s [&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-64187","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64187","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=64187"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64187\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64188,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64187\/revisions\/64188"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}