{"id":69857,"date":"2019-06-26T01:31:55","date_gmt":"2019-06-26T05:31:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=69857"},"modified":"2019-06-28T02:50:48","modified_gmt":"2019-06-28T06:50:48","slug":"hedge-funds-boost-equity-leverage-at-fastest-rate-in-three-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/06\/2019\/hedge-funds-boost-equity-leverage-at-fastest-rate-in-three-years.html","title":{"rendered":"Hedge Funds Boost Equity Leverage at Fastest Rate in Three Years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n(Bloomberg) Some of the most aggressive traders in the market are embracing stocks after avoiding them for almost a year. Rather than bailing during rallies, hedge funds are jumping in, just as the S&#038;P 500 Index vaults back to records. Net leverage, a measure of industry risk appetite that takes into account long versus short positions, has risen by 6.6 percentage points to 63.9% in June, on course for the biggest increase in three years, data compiled by Goldman Sachs Group Inc.\u2019s prime brokerage unit showed. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2019-06-25\/hedge-funds-boost-equity-leverage-at-fastest-rate-in-three-years\">To read this article:<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Bloomberg) Some of the most aggressive traders in the market are embracing stocks after avoiding them for almost a year. Rather than bailing during rallies, hedge funds are jumping in, just as the S&#038;P 500 Index vaults back to records. [&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-69857","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69857","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=69857"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69857\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69858,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69857\/revisions\/69858"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}