{"id":8652,"date":"2008-09-19T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-09-19T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T04:00:00","slug":"did-mayfair-hedge-funds-play-fair-by-short-selling-hbos-shares","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/09\/2008\/did-mayfair-hedge-funds-play-fair-by-short-selling-hbos-shares.html","title":{"rendered":"Did Mayfair hedge funds play fair by short-selling HBOS shares?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Times Online &#8211; Why did HBOS need to be rescued by Lloyds TSB? Where should the finger of blame point? <\/p>\n<p> For many, the answer is clear &#8211; Mayfair. <\/p>\n<p> The streets of London W1 house some of the world&rsquo;s biggest hedge funds, which now stand accused of bringing HBOS and other financial institutions to their knees. <\/p>\n<p> Their weapon? Short-selling, the process of betting that a share price will fall. <\/p>\n<p><strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/news_land.php?i=http:\/\/www.timesonline.co.uk\/tol\/business\/industry_sectors\/banking_and_finance\/article4783638.ece\">Read Complete Article<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Times Online &#8211; Why did HBOS need to be rescued by Lloyds TSB? Where should the finger of blame point? For many, the answer is clear &#8211; Mayfair. The streets of London W1 house some of the world&rsquo;s biggest hedge [&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":[810,1303,753,340,750,71],"class_list":["post-8652","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated","tag-capital-group","tag-dissidents","tag-market-abuse","tag-savings-and-loan-crisis","tag-term-debt","tag-uma-thurman"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8652","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=8652"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8652\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}