{"id":65104,"date":"2018-08-05T00:10:13","date_gmt":"2018-08-05T04:10:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=65104"},"modified":"2018-08-07T00:34:51","modified_gmt":"2018-08-07T04:34:51","slug":"china-reminds-hedge-funds-that-the-yuan-is-a-dangerous-short","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/08\/2018\/china-reminds-hedge-funds-that-the-yuan-is-a-dangerous-short.html","title":{"rendered":"China Reminds Hedge Funds That the Yuan Is a Dangerous Short"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(Bloomberg) It\u2019s exactly the kind of shock that many hedge fund managers feared as they mulled whether to bet big against China\u2019s currency. In a surprise statement on Friday night, the People\u2019s Bank of China announced a rule tweak that will make bearish yuan trades much more expensive. The move, which sparked a sharp rally in the currency, echoed efforts to deter short sellers almost three years ago. It also underscored why hedge funds have largely avoided wagers against the yuan in recent months, missing out on one of the world\u2019s most profitable currency trades.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2018-08-05\/china-reminds-hedge-funds-that-the-yuan-is-a-dangerous-short\">To read this article:<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Bloomberg) It\u2019s exactly the kind of shock that many hedge fund managers feared as they mulled whether to bet big against China\u2019s currency. In a surprise statement on Friday night, the People\u2019s Bank of China announced a rule tweak that [&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-65104","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65104","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=65104"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65104\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65105,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65104\/revisions\/65105"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}