{"id":7056,"date":"2008-01-29T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-01-29T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T04:00:00","slug":"hedge-funds-fuel-volatility","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/01\/2008\/hedge-funds-fuel-volatility.html","title":{"rendered":"Hedge funds fuel volatility"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>InvestorDaily- Hedge fund participation in the share market downturn has only intensified the markets&#8217; rapid fall, according to Australian Unity chief investment officer David Bryant. <\/p>\n<p>&quot;They make a lot of money very quickly on the downside and unfortunately the Australian market, in relative size terms is an easy target for some of these,&quot; he said. <\/p>\n<p>On&nbsp;January 21&nbsp;the All Ordinaries Index dropped the most since the October 1989 stock market mini-crash on worries that a potential US recession could cause a slowdown in global demand for commodities. However the markets&nbsp;rebounded at the end of the week.<\/p>\n<p>The index fell to its lowest level in over a year, while the benchmark S&amp;P\/ASX 200 Index declined the most since data began in 1992.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.google.com\/news\/url?sa=T&#038;ct=us\/8-0&#038;fd=R&#038;url=http:\/\/www.investordaily.com.au\/3760.htm&#038;cid=1127049419&#038;ei=Cw2fR5LcEqiGqwOtqcycAw\"><strong>Read Complete Article<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>InvestorDaily- Hedge fund participation in the share market downturn has only intensified the markets&#8217; rapid fall, according to Australian Unity chief investment officer David Bryant. &quot;They make a lot of money very quickly on the downside and unfortunately the Australian [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7056","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7056","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7056"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7056\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7056"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7056"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7056"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}