{"id":65203,"date":"2018-08-12T00:47:43","date_gmt":"2018-08-12T04:47:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=65203"},"modified":"2018-08-14T00:30:41","modified_gmt":"2018-08-14T04:30:41","slug":"hedge-funds-are-shorting-australian-retailers-as-home-prices-fall-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/08\/2018\/hedge-funds-are-shorting-australian-retailers-as-home-prices-fall-2.html","title":{"rendered":"Hedge Funds Are Shorting Australian Retailers as Home Prices Fall"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n(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 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-65203","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65203","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=65203"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65203\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65204,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65203\/revisions\/65204"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}