{"id":76824,"date":"2021-01-07T01:01:05","date_gmt":"2021-01-07T06:01:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=76824"},"modified":"2021-01-07T00:57:28","modified_gmt":"2021-01-07T05:57:28","slug":"hedge-funds-profit-from-astrazeneca-fall-but-ftse-short-sellers-face-continued-challenges-in-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/01\/2021\/hedge-funds-profit-from-astrazeneca-fall-but-ftse-short-sellers-face-continued-challenges-in-2021.html","title":{"rendered":"Hedge funds profit from AstraZeneca fall, but FTSE short sellers face continued challenges in 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>(Hedgeweek) <em><strong>Hedge funds have made gains from bets against AstraZeneca and GlaxoSmithKline in recent weeks \u2013\u00a0but bearish managers lost more than USD600 million on FTSE 100 shorts at the end of the year, with short sellers facing continuing \u201cunpredictable swings\u201d in 2021.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hedgeweek.com\/2021\/01\/06\/294053\/hedge-funds-profit-astrazeneca-fall-ftse-short-sellers-face-continued-challenges\">To read this article:<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Hedgeweek) Hedge funds have made gains from bets against AstraZeneca and GlaxoSmithKline in recent weeks \u2013\u00a0but bearish managers lost more than USD600 million on FTSE 100 shorts at the end of the year, with short sellers facing continuing \u201cunpredictable swings\u201d [&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-76824","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76824","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=76824"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76824\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76825,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76824\/revisions\/76825"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}