{"id":65304,"date":"2018-08-19T01:25:24","date_gmt":"2018-08-19T05:25:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=65304"},"modified":"2018-08-20T23:33:08","modified_gmt":"2018-08-21T03:33:08","slug":"hedge-funds-went-short-on-metals-just-before-the-sell-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/08\/2018\/hedge-funds-went-short-on-metals-just-before-the-sell-off.html","title":{"rendered":"Hedge Funds Went Short on Metals Just Before the Sell-Off"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(Bloomberg) Commodity markets have gone haywire &#8212; and hedge funds with picture-perfect timing are set to rake in stellar profits. As U.S.-China trade tensions escalated mid-June, fast-money traders flipped to a short position in metals overall, subsequently extending bearish wagers to a record coming into last week\u2019s maelstrom. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2018-08-16\/hedge-funds-turned-record-short-on-metals-just-before-sell-off\">To read this article:<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Bloomberg) Commodity markets have gone haywire &#8212; and hedge funds with picture-perfect timing are set to rake in stellar profits. As U.S.-China trade tensions escalated mid-June, fast-money traders flipped to a short position in metals overall, subsequently extending bearish wagers [&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-65304","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65304","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=65304"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65304\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65305,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65304\/revisions\/65305"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}