{"id":9698,"date":"2009-01-23T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-01-23T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T04:00:00","slug":"hedge-fund-made-millions-short-selling-on-barclays-as-its-share-price-plummeted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/01\/2009\/hedge-fund-made-millions-short-selling-on-barclays-as-its-share-price-plummeted.html","title":{"rendered":"Hedge fund made millions short-selling on Barclays as its share price plummeted"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Daily Mail &#8211; One of Britain&#8217;s most successful hedge funds made a fortune betting on a plunge in Barclays shares on the day the short-selling ban was lifted, it has emerged.<\/p>\n<p>Lansdowne Partners sold shares in the high street banking giant last Friday when they plummeted by 25 per cent and then bought them back on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/news_land.php?i=http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-1126885\/Hedge-fund-millions-short-selling-Barclays-share-price-plummeted.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Read Complete Article<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Daily Mail &#8211; One of Britain&#8217;s most successful hedge funds made a fortune betting on a plunge in Barclays shares on the day the short-selling ban was lifted, it has emerged. Lansdowne Partners sold shares in the high street banking [&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":[584,6228,3088,6229,1092],"class_list":["post-9698","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated","tag-barclays","tag-daily-mail","tag-fortune","tag-last-friday","tag-plunge"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9698","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=9698"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9698\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}