{"id":8687,"date":"2008-09-24T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-09-24T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T04:00:00","slug":"us-hedge-fund-paulson-bets-big-against-uk-banks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/09\/2008\/us-hedge-fund-paulson-bets-big-against-uk-banks.html","title":{"rendered":"US hedge fund Paulson bets big against UK banks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Reuters &#8211; John Paulson, a U.S. hedge fund manager who gained a superstar reputation with a big bet against the U.S. housing market, was shown holding a 1 billion pound ($1.9 billion) bet against UK banks as short sellers were forced to disclose their positions.       <\/p>\n<p> Paulson &amp; Co., run by John Paulson and based in New York, said it had a 1.2 percent short position in Barclays, worth over 350 million pounds, a 1.8 percent short position in Lloyds TSB, and short positions of just under 1 percent in Royal Bank of Scotland and HBOS.<\/p>\n<p> The stakes were unveiled on Wednesday after Britain&#8217;s regulator imposed a ban on short-selling financial stocks last Friday, which was followed by similar moves in the United States and elsewhere.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/news_land.php?i=http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/marketsNews\/idUSLO6691320080924\">Read Complete Article<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reuters &#8211; John Paulson, a U.S. hedge fund manager who gained a superstar reputation with a big bet against the U.S. housing market, was shown holding a 1 billion pound ($1.9 billion) bet against UK banks as short sellers were [&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":[310,1755,1806,974,597,1779,117,740,753,150,829,1073,81,754,889,600,2818,750,1223],"class_list":["post-8687","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated","tag-100-million","tag-ameriprise","tag-equity-fund","tag-financial-history","tag-intangible-assets","tag-international-assets","tag-investment-arm","tag-lng","tag-market-abuse","tag-market-disruptions","tag-market-timing","tag-market-traders","tag-newcastle","tag-personal-reasons","tag-powerhouse","tag-royal-bank-of-scotland","tag-selling-energy","tag-term-debt","tag-world-equity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8687","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=8687"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8687\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}