{"id":8594,"date":"2008-09-12T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-09-12T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T04:00:00","slug":"hedge-funds-gone-wild","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/09\/2008\/hedge-funds-gone-wild.html","title":{"rendered":"Hedge Funds Gone Wild"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CNBC &#8211; Hedge funds have more control over stock prices than market and business fundamentals, <strong><strong>Cramer said yesterday during Wednesday&rsquo;s show<\/strong><\/strong>, but now it looks like at least two companies are fighting back.<\/p>\n<p class=\"textBodyBlack\">Yesterday Cramer explained how massive hedge fund selling has been forcing down commodity-related stocks. It&rsquo;s true that the fall of commodities themselves is partly to blame, but the rate of decline for the sector&rsquo;s stocks has far outpaced that of oil, natural gas and other resources. So what&rsquo;s going on? Investors in poorly performing hedge funds are demanding their money back, so the funds are dumping millions of shares into the open market to generate cash. <\/p>\n<p><a name=\"StoryImage\"><\/a>The trend has been enough to drive both investors in and CEOs of these commodity-related companies crazy. But today <strong>Joy Global<\/strong> <span>cnbc_comboQuoteMove(&#8216;popup_JOYG_ID0EZE15839609&#8217;);<\/span>and <strong>CSX<\/strong> pulled a Howard Beale, declaring they&rsquo;re mad as hell and they&rsquo;re not going to take it anymore. cnbc_quoteComponent_init_getData(&#8220;CSX&#8221;,&#8221;WSODQ_COMPONENT_CSX_ID0EZBAC15839609&#8243;,&#8221;WSODQ&#8221;,&#8221;true&#8221;,&#8221;ID0EZBAC15839609&#8243;,&#8221;off&#8221;,&#8221;false&#8221;);   <\/p>\n<p>  <strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/news_land.php?i=http:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/id\/26659737\">Read Complete Article<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CNBC &#8211; Hedge funds have more control over stock prices than market and business fundamentals, Cramer said yesterday during Wednesday&rsquo;s show, but now it looks like at least two companies are fighting back. Yesterday Cramer explained how massive hedge fund [&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":[1362,180,82,67,331,2638,1273,2048,240],"class_list":["post-8594","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated","tag-absolute-return","tag-accountant","tag-bets","tag-chief-executive","tag-downside","tag-mad-money","tag-new-york-times-co","tag-seven-months","tag-us-congress"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8594","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=8594"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8594\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}