{"id":70858,"date":"2019-09-08T00:17:44","date_gmt":"2019-09-08T04:17:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=70858"},"modified":"2019-09-10T00:54:44","modified_gmt":"2019-09-10T04:54:44","slug":"a-hedge-fund-lost-1-billion-in-august-betting-on-argentinas-economy-recovering","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/09\/2019\/a-hedge-fund-lost-1-billion-in-august-betting-on-argentinas-economy-recovering.html","title":{"rendered":"A hedge fund lost $1 billion in August betting on Argentina\u2019s economy recovering"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(CNBC) One of the better-performing hedge funds reportedly took a heavy loss last month, as a big bet on Argentina\u2019s economy went sour.<\/p>\n<p>Autonomy Capital lost about $1 billion, or about 23%, in August after taking a large position in Argentina\u2019s 100-year bonds, The Wall Street Journal reported on Wednesday. The hedge fund began betting on Argentina\u2019s recovery last year, the report said.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2019\/09\/06\/hedge-fund-autonomy-reportedly-lost-1-billion-in-august-argentina-bet.html\">To read this article:<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(CNBC) One of the better-performing hedge funds reportedly took a heavy loss last month, as a big bet on Argentina\u2019s economy went sour. Autonomy Capital lost about $1 billion, or about 23%, in August after taking a large position in [&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-70858","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70858","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=70858"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70858\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70859,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70858\/revisions\/70859"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}