{"id":65040,"date":"2018-08-01T00:06:16","date_gmt":"2018-08-01T04:06:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=65040"},"modified":"2018-07-31T21:56:57","modified_gmt":"2018-08-01T01:56:57","slug":"hedge-funds-big-short-could-be-fools-gold","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/08\/2018\/hedge-funds-big-short-could-be-fools-gold.html","title":{"rendered":"Hedge Funds\u2019 Big Short Could Be Fool\u2019s Gold"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n(Bloomberg) Investors have never been so down on gold. Managed money funds\u2019 position in Comex gold futures and options last week crashed to a net short of 27,156 contracts. That amount \u2014 equivalent to 2.7 million troy ounces, or 14 million-odd wedding bands \u2014 represents the most bearish position for hedge fund investors in data going back to 2006, outstripping even the major wobble at the end of 2015 as the U.S. Federal Reserve started edging away from its zero-interest-rate policy. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/view\/articles\/2018-07-30\/hedge-funds-big-short-could-be-fool-s-gold\">To read this article:<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Bloomberg) Investors have never been so down on gold. Managed money funds\u2019 position in Comex gold futures and options last week crashed to a net short of 27,156 contracts. That amount \u2014 equivalent to 2.7 million troy ounces, or 14 [&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-65040","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65040","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=65040"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65040\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65041,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65040\/revisions\/65041"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}