{"id":68979,"date":"2019-04-24T00:06:31","date_gmt":"2019-04-24T04:06:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=68979"},"modified":"2019-04-23T23:34:23","modified_gmt":"2019-04-24T03:34:23","slug":"iran-sanctions-decision-rewards-hedge-fund-oil-bulls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/04\/2019\/iran-sanctions-decision-rewards-hedge-fund-oil-bulls.html","title":{"rendered":"Iran sanctions decision rewards hedge fund oil bulls"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(Reuters) &#8211; Hedge fund managers added even more bullish long positions in crude oil and gasoline last week as traders bet prices will continue rising despite a sluggish economy and political sensitivity around escalating motoring costs. The Trump administration\u2019s decision to toughen sanctions on Iran\u2019s oil exports has rewarded fund managers who have been increasingly confident that the oil market will tighten significantly this year, lifting prices. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/oil-prices-kemp\/rpt-column-iran-sanctions-decision-rewards-hedge-fund-oil-bulls-kemp-idUSL5N2252Q8\">To read this article:<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Reuters) &#8211; Hedge fund managers added even more bullish long positions in crude oil and gasoline last week as traders bet prices will continue rising despite a sluggish economy and political sensitivity around escalating motoring costs. The Trump administration\u2019s decision [&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-68979","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68979","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=68979"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68979\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68980,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68979\/revisions\/68980"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}