{"id":8537,"date":"2008-09-04T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-09-04T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T04:00:00","slug":"dry-times-for-hedge-funds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/09\/2008\/dry-times-for-hedge-funds.html","title":{"rendered":"Dry times for hedge funds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Asia Times &#8211; In olden days, explorers sailing the world&#8217;s oceans in search of new profit  \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\topportunities navigated the unknown by means of looking to the heavens and  \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tguiding by the stars. Today, investors still attempt to navigate the dark  \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\twaters of turbulent economic times with guidance from the stars, namely the  \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tsatellites in the heavens that carry the world&#8217;s three major international  \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tfinancial information broadcast networks, General Electric&#8217;s CNBC, Bloomberg&#8217;s  \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tBloomberg TV and News Corp&#8217;s Fox Business Channel. \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p> \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tFox Business is under a year old; Bloomberg TV is basically an adjunct of the  \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tcompany&#8217;s core data terminal business on every trader&#8217;s desk in the world;  \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tCNBC, on the air in one form or another for about two decades now, is insanely  \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tprofitable; advertisers pay a lot more to reach its audience of millionaires  \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\twith money to burn than they do to reach the people at home in the  \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tafternoon. <\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"..\/news\/news_land.php?i=http:\/\/www.atimes.com\/atimes\/Global_Economy\/JI05Dj02.html\" target=\"_blank\">Read Complete Article<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/news\/news_land.php?i=http:\/\/www.atimes.com\/atimes\/Global_Economy\/JI05Dj02.html\" target=\"_blank\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Asia Times &#8211; In olden days, explorers sailing the world&#8217;s oceans in search of new profit opportunities navigated the unknown by means of looking to the heavens and guiding by the stars. Today, investors still attempt to navigate the dark [&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":[2504,1362,2506,122,1538,2503,2505],"class_list":["post-8537","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated","tag-29-april","tag-absolute-return","tag-babcock","tag-dee","tag-frm","tag-price-discovery","tag-weaponry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8537","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=8537"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8537\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}