{"id":64528,"date":"2018-07-04T00:07:09","date_gmt":"2018-07-04T04:07:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=64528"},"modified":"2018-07-06T01:52:29","modified_gmt":"2018-07-06T05:52:29","slug":"u-k-lawmaker-says-secret-hedge-fund-brexit-polling-a-scandal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/07\/2018\/u-k-lawmaker-says-secret-hedge-fund-brexit-polling-a-scandal.html","title":{"rendered":"U.K. Lawmaker Says Secret Hedge Fund Brexit Polling a \u2018Scandal\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(Bloomberg) U.K. lawmaker George Foulkes said hedge funds use of private polling data to bet on the outcome of the 2016 British referendum was a &#8220;scandal,&#8221; and called for an investigation into practices revealed in a Bloomberg report. If &#8220;any section of the public is given information which is not publicly available it is a criminal offence,&#8221; said Foulkes during a debate in parliament on Tuesday. &#8220;Action needs to be taken.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2018-07-03\/u-k-lawmaker-says-secret-hedge-fund-brexit-polling-a-scandal\">To read this article:<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Bloomberg) U.K. lawmaker George Foulkes said hedge funds use of private polling data to bet on the outcome of the 2016 British referendum was a &#8220;scandal,&#8221; and called for an investigation into practices revealed in a Bloomberg report. If &#8220;any [&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-64528","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64528","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=64528"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64528\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64529,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64528\/revisions\/64529"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}