{"id":66939,"date":"2018-12-05T01:51:50","date_gmt":"2018-12-05T06:51:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=66939"},"modified":"2018-12-05T01:51:50","modified_gmt":"2018-12-05T06:51:50","slug":"hedge-funds-should-fear-market-whimpers-not-bangs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/12\/2018\/hedge-funds-should-fear-market-whimpers-not-bangs.html","title":{"rendered":"Hedge Funds Should Fear Market Whimpers, Not Bangs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n(Bloomberg) This year is ending with something of a bang as the on-again-off-again trade war sends ripples through global stock indexes. There&#8217;s a growing risk, though, that financial markets will end up whimpering through 2019 as a slowing global economy and heightened geopolitical concerns conspire to leave markets becalmed \u2013 making life even harder for the hedge-fund crowd. The most recent consensus forecast among strategists surveyed by Bloomberg is for the S&#038;P 500 Index to eke out a gain of just 3.87 percent in 2019. That&#8217;s based on expectations for a year-end value of 3,056 compared with the 2,942 they&#8217;re predicting for the end of December. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/opinion\/articles\/2018-12-04\/hedge-funds-should-fear-market-whimpers-not-bangs\">To read this article:<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Bloomberg) This year is ending with something of a bang as the on-again-off-again trade war sends ripples through global stock indexes. There&#8217;s a growing risk, though, that financial markets will end up whimpering through 2019 as a slowing global economy [&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-66939","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66939","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=66939"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66939\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66940,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66939\/revisions\/66940"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}