{"id":67235,"date":"2018-12-24T15:10:23","date_gmt":"2018-12-24T20:10:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=67235"},"modified":"2018-12-24T15:10:23","modified_gmt":"2018-12-24T20:10:23","slug":"macro-hedge-funds-facing-worst-year-since-2011-as-promise-turns-to-pain-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/12\/2018\/macro-hedge-funds-facing-worst-year-since-2011-as-promise-turns-to-pain-2.html","title":{"rendered":"Macro Hedge Funds Facing Worst Year Since 2011, as Promise Turns to Pain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n(Reuters) Macro funds, which tend to trade currencies and bonds off global macro-economic trends, were wrongfooted \u2014 like almost everyone else &#8211; by the world economy, which kicked off the year in robust fashion only to lose momentum. Even the United States is now showing signs of slowdown. Many \u2018macro\u2019 funds started the year \u201clong\u201d in emerging markets, European stocks, the euro and \u201cshort\u201d in the U.S. dollar.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-hedge-funds-returns\/macro-hedge-funds-facing-worst-year-since-2011-as-promise-turns-to-pain-idUSKCN1OJ1AV\">To read this article:<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Reuters) Macro funds, which tend to trade currencies and bonds off global macro-economic trends, were wrongfooted \u2014 like almost everyone else &#8211; by the world economy, which kicked off the year in robust fashion only to lose momentum. Even the [&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-67235","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67235","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=67235"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67235\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67236,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67235\/revisions\/67236"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}