{"id":67836,"date":"2019-02-04T01:51:08","date_gmt":"2019-02-04T06:51:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=67836"},"modified":"2019-02-06T02:03:37","modified_gmt":"2019-02-06T07:03:37","slug":"hedge-fund-bear-crispin-odey-made-18-million-betting-against-wirecard-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/02\/2019\/hedge-fund-bear-crispin-odey-made-18-million-betting-against-wirecard-2.html","title":{"rendered":"Hedge Fund Bear Crispin Odey Made $18 Million Betting Against Wirecard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n(Bloomberg) Hedge fund manager Crispin Odey\u2019s winning run with his short-selling bets continued this week as wagers against digital payments company Wirecard AG paid off. Odey Asset Management made an estimated $18 million, at least on paper, on Wednesday when Wirecard shares were battered by allegations of executive fraud. In its largest disclosed short by value, the hedge fund reported a $131.8 million position as of Jan. 30 betting that Wirecard would drop, according to data compiled by Bloomberg.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2019-02-01\/hedge-fund-bear-odey-hits-another-home-run-with-wirecard-wager\">To read this article:<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Bloomberg) Hedge fund manager Crispin Odey\u2019s winning run with his short-selling bets continued this week as wagers against digital payments company Wirecard AG paid off. Odey Asset Management made an estimated $18 million, at least on paper, on Wednesday when [&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-67836","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67836","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=67836"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67836\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67837,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67836\/revisions\/67837"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}