{"id":7647,"date":"2008-05-05T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-05-05T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T04:00:00","slug":"hedge-funds-call-bottom-on-britain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/05\/2008\/hedge-funds-call-bottom-on-britain.html","title":{"rendered":"Hedge Funds call bottom on Britain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Times Online- Hedge Funds are beginning to bet that shares in Britain&rsquo;s biggest banks have hit rock bottom, in spite of mounting speculation about further multi-billion-pound rights issues and fresh concerns about the mortgage market. <\/p>\n<p>Traders have begun to scale back their &ldquo;short&rdquo; positions on shares in Britain&rsquo;s biggest banks, according to research conducted by a large investment bank. A short position is a bet that the share price will fall. <\/p>\n<p>Only 5.4% of Barclays&rsquo; shares are now held by short-sellers, compared with 10.5% a month ago. The size of the short position on Royal Bank of Scotland, which announced a &pound;12 billion rights issue two weeks ago, has dropped from 6.1% to less than 4% over the same period. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/news_land.php?i=http:\/\/business.timesonline.co.uk\/tol\/business\/industry_sectors\/banking_and_finance\/article3867837.ece\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Read Complete Article<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Times Online- Hedge Funds are beginning to bet that shares in Britain&rsquo;s biggest banks have hit rock bottom, in spite of mounting speculation about further multi-billion-pound rights issues and fresh concerns about the mortgage market. Traders have begun to scale [&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-7647","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7647","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=7647"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7647\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}