{"id":8333,"date":"2008-08-11T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-08-11T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T04:00:00","slug":"commodities-slide-hits-hedge-funds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/08\/2008\/commodities-slide-hits-hedge-funds.html","title":{"rendered":"Commodities Slide Hits Hedge Funds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> Washington Post &#8211; John W. Henry &amp; Co., the investment firm run by the Boston Red Sox baseball team&#8217;s owner, is among hedge funds that in July suffered their worst drops in almost 18 months as oil and other commodities retreated from record prices. <\/p>\n<p>John W. Henry lost 17 percent on its JWH GlobalAnalytics fund, the firm said on its Web site. Altis Partners&#8217; $1 billion global futures program fell 18 percent, paring its gain for the year to 10 percent. London-based Man Group&#8217;s AHL Diversified Futures, the computer program that trades about $25 billion of investments, dropped 5.5 percent through July 28, or a loss of about $1.37 billion in the month. <\/p>\n<p>Oil, natural gas, nickel and corn prices all tumbled in July, making it the worst month for the Reuters\/Jefferies CRB Commodity Index in 28 years. The drops pushed commodities trading advisers to their biggest declines since March 2007, according to data compiled by fund tracker Barclay Hedge. <\/p>\n<p><strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/news_land.php?i=http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2008\/08\/09\/AR2008080900136.html\">Read Complete Article<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Washington Post &#8211; John W. Henry &amp; Co., the investment firm run by the Boston Red Sox baseball team&#8217;s owner, is among hedge funds that in July suffered their worst drops in almost 18 months as oil and other commodities [&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":[2047,2042,2045,2017,2015,404,331,2043,461,117,2016,2018,268,2044,2046,2048,2014],"class_list":["post-8333","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated","tag-28-years","tag-collaboration","tag-corn-prices","tag-daily-newspapers","tag-dissident-shareholders","tag-downfall","tag-downside","tag-fairfield-iowa","tag-home-loans","tag-investment-arm","tag-janet-robinson","tag-market-analyst","tag-multibillion-dollar","tag-nasdaq-100","tag-sahl","tag-seven-months","tag-york-mercantile-exchange"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8333","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=8333"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8333\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}