{"id":8211,"date":"2008-07-28T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-07-28T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T04:00:00","slug":"investors-are-betting-1tn-on-collapse-in-global-stock-prices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/07\/2008\/investors-are-betting-1tn-on-collapse-in-global-stock-prices.html","title":{"rendered":"Investors are betting $1tn on collapse in global stock prices"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Gulf Times- Managers from William Ackman to Jim Rogers made a total of at least $1.4bn in July with wagers against US mortgage financiers Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, according to data compiled by Bloomberg. <\/p>\n<p>Harbinger Capital Partners staked $665mn that UK mortgage lender HBOS would drop and Sao Paulo-based hedge-fund manager Francisco Meirelles de Andrade&rsquo;s short selling of Cia. Vale do Rio Doce is also paying off.<\/p>\n<p>More than $1.4tn of equities worldwide are now on loan, about a third higher than at the start of 2007, data compiled by Spitalfields Advisors, the London-based firm specialising in securities lending, show. Almost all of that is being used to speculate that shares will fall, according to James Angel, a finance professor at Georgetown University who studies short selling. <\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Read Complete Article\" target=\"_self\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gulf-times.com\/site\/topics\/article.asp?cu_no=2&#038;item_no=232465&#038;version=1&#038;template_id=48&#038;parent_id=28\"><strong>Read Complete Article<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gulf Times- Managers from William Ackman to Jim Rogers made a total of at least $1.4bn in July with wagers against US mortgage financiers Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, according to data compiled by Bloomberg. Harbinger Capital Partners staked $665mn [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[1436,67,1759,1758,1434,1760,1439,753,886],"class_list":["post-8211","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated","tag-american-international-group","tag-chief-executive","tag-companhia-vale-do-rio","tag-companhia-vale-do-rio-doce","tag-feeder","tag-futures-and-options","tag-loan-sales","tag-market-abuse","tag-takeover"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8211","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=8211"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8211\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}