{"id":67193,"date":"2018-12-21T00:04:20","date_gmt":"2018-12-21T05:04:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=67193"},"modified":"2018-12-20T23:52:43","modified_gmt":"2018-12-21T04:52:43","slug":"67193","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/12\/2018\/67193.html","title":{"rendered":"Billions Go Missing as Hedge Funds Forgo Winning Big Short"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n(Bloomberg) Hedge funds have seen their short bets shrink by billions of dollars even as the bearish strategy posts bumper profits &#8212; the latest twist in the tale of the stock rout that\u2019s wiped out over $2 trillion in two weeks. As economic and monetary angst lash U.S. markets into submission, short interest in cash equities as a percentage of market cap has tumbled to near the lowest since 2010, according to Deutsche Bank AG.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2018-12-19\/billions-go-missing-as-hedge-funds-forgo-winning-big-short\">To read this article:<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Bloomberg) Hedge funds have seen their short bets shrink by billions of dollars even as the bearish strategy posts bumper profits &#8212; the latest twist in the tale of the stock rout that\u2019s wiped out over $2 trillion in two [&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-67193","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67193","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=67193"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67193\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67197,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67193\/revisions\/67197"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}