{"id":66790,"date":"2018-11-25T00:02:50","date_gmt":"2018-11-25T05:02:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=66790"},"modified":"2018-11-27T01:15:03","modified_gmt":"2018-11-27T06:15:03","slug":"george-soros-makes-10-5m-stock-market-bet-against-wh-smith","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/11\/2018\/george-soros-makes-10-5m-stock-market-bet-against-wh-smith.html","title":{"rendered":"George Soros Makes \u00a310.5m Stock Market Bet Against WH Smith"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(The Guardian) The British hedge fund run by George Soros has made a \u00a310m stock market bet against retailer WH Smith, adding to short positions equivalent to more than \u00a3100m in UK-listed companies. SFM UK Management has nine publicly declared shorts in British firms, regulatory filings show. The 0.5% short position in WH Smith, opened on 19 November, was equivalent to \u00a310.5m at the close of trading on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2018\/nov\/22\/george-soros-stock-market-bet-against-wh-smith-short-positions-hedge-fund-uk-listed\">To read this article:<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(The Guardian) The British hedge fund run by George Soros has made a \u00a310m stock market bet against retailer WH Smith, adding to short positions equivalent to more than \u00a3100m in UK-listed companies. SFM UK Management has nine publicly declared [&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-66790","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66790","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=66790"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66790\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66791,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66790\/revisions\/66791"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}