{"id":9676,"date":"2009-01-21T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-01-21T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T04:00:00","slug":"hedge-funds-may-have-missed-out-on-bank-share-slump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/01\/2009\/hedge-funds-may-have-missed-out-on-bank-share-slump.html","title":{"rendered":"Hedge funds may have missed out on bank share slump"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LONDON (Reuters) &#8211; Hedge funds may have missed out on sharp falls in banks&#8217; shares in recent days because few rushed in after the UK&#8217;s ban on short selling financial stocks expired on Friday, data shows.<\/p>\n<p>According to figures from research firm Data Explorers, the amount of stock out on loan &#8212; a good indication of how much a stock has been sold short &#8212; did not increase on Friday in Royal Bank of Scotland and actually fell in HBOS.<\/p>\n<p>Stock out on loan in HSBC, Lloyds TSB and Barclays rose only slightly.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/news_land.php?i=http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/euDealsNews\/idUSTRE50J65620090120\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Read Complete Article<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LONDON (Reuters) &#8211; Hedge funds may have missed out on sharp falls in banks&#8217; shares in recent days because few rushed in after the UK&#8217;s ban on short selling financial stocks expired on Friday, data shows. According to figures from [&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":[4306,584,6080,4758,752,2231,6079,1778,600,336],"class_list":["post-9676","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated","tag-banks","tag-barclays","tag-explorers","tag-financial-stocks","tag-hbos","tag-hsbc","tag-lloyds-tsb","tag-london-reuters","tag-royal-bank-of-scotland","tag-stock"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9676","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=9676"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9676\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}