{"id":9665,"date":"2009-01-20T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-01-20T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T04:00:00","slug":"fund-admits-short-selling-bank-shares","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/01\/2009\/fund-admits-short-selling-bank-shares.html","title":{"rendered":"Fund admits short-selling bank shares"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>guardian.co.uk &#8211; A hedge fund admitted yesterday it had been speculating that shares in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/business\/barclay\">Barclays<\/a> would fall. The admission by Lansdowne Partners that it had been shorting Barclays shares on Friday &#8211; a day when the bank lost a quarter of its value &#8211; came amid concern that hedge funds could be blamed for the dramatic slide in bank shares yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>Hedge funds have to disclose any short positions &#8211; where they sell shares they do not own in the hope of buying them back at a lower price to make a profit &#8211; but are no longer banned from the practice after a change to the Financial Services Authority&#8217;s rules at the end of last week.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/news_land.php?i=http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/business\/2009\/jan\/20\/barclays-short-selling\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Read Complete Article<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>guardian.co.uk &#8211; A hedge fund admitted yesterday it had been speculating that shares in Barclays would fall. The admission by Lansdowne Partners that it had been shorting Barclays shares on Friday &#8211; a day when the bank lost a quarter [&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":[5996,584,5994,1331,5775,5995],"class_list":["post-9665","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated","tag-admission","tag-barclays","tag-dramatic-slide","tag-financial-services-authority","tag-guardian","tag-lansdowne-partners"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9665","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=9665"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9665\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}