{"id":65185,"date":"2018-08-10T02:16:51","date_gmt":"2018-08-10T06:16:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=65185"},"modified":"2018-08-10T02:16:51","modified_gmt":"2018-08-10T06:16:51","slug":"hedge-funds-are-shorting-australian-retailers-as-home-prices-fall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/08\/2018\/hedge-funds-are-shorting-australian-retailers-as-home-prices-fall.html","title":{"rendered":"Hedge Funds Are Shorting Australian Retailers as Home Prices Fall"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(Bloomberg) Hedge funds have found a new way to profit from the sorry state of Australia\u2019s housing market: playing off how much poorer consumers feel as their home values decline. Managers including Totus Capital and Sydney\u2019s Regal Funds Management are heaping<br \/>\n bearish wagers on companies from JB Hi-Fi Ltd. to Harvey Norman Holdings Ltd., betting discretionary retail stocks will wobble as the country\u2019s decades-long property boom goes into reverse and people shop less.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2018-08-09\/-widow-maker-trade-gives-way-to-shorting-australia-retailers\">To read this article:<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Bloomberg) Hedge funds have found a new way to profit from the sorry state of Australia\u2019s housing market: playing off how much poorer consumers feel as their home values decline. Managers including Totus Capital and Sydney\u2019s Regal Funds Management are [&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-65185","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65185","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=65185"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65185\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65186,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65185\/revisions\/65186"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}