{"id":76139,"date":"2020-11-04T02:15:04","date_gmt":"2020-11-04T07:15:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=76139"},"modified":"2020-11-04T02:01:55","modified_gmt":"2020-11-04T07:01:55","slug":"hedge-funds-net-1-billion-from-short-selling-ftse-100-stocks-as-covid-and-brexit-propel-volatility","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/11\/2020\/hedge-funds-net-1-billion-from-short-selling-ftse-100-stocks-as-covid-and-brexit-propel-volatility.html","title":{"rendered":"Hedge funds net $1 billion from short selling FTSE 100 stocks, as Covid and Brexit propel volatility"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>(Hedgeweek) <em><strong>Hedge funds made more than USD1 billion from short positions in FTSE 100 companies during October\u2019s stock market volatility, as managers capitalised on renewed uncertainty over the coronavirus pandemic and heightened fears of a no-deal Brexit.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hedgeweek.com\/2020\/11\/03\/291682\/hedge-funds-net-usd1-billion-short-selling-ftse-100-stocks-covid-and-brexit\">To read this article:<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Hedgeweek) Hedge funds made more than USD1 billion from short positions in FTSE 100 companies during October\u2019s stock market volatility, as managers capitalised on renewed uncertainty over the coronavirus pandemic and heightened fears of a no-deal Brexit. To read this [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76139","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76139","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=76139"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76139\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76140,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76139\/revisions\/76140"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}