{"id":9811,"date":"2009-02-05T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-02-05T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T04:00:00","slug":"ryanair-boss-hedges-his-bets-on-the-price","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/02\/2009\/ryanair-boss-hedges-his-bets-on-the-price.html","title":{"rendered":"Ryanair boss hedges his bets on the price"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is Money &#8211; Hedge will be one of those words forever linked to the great financial crisis of 2008. The hedge funds were supposedly money-minting schemes whereby fantastically intelligent financial whiz kids write fantastically complex programmes to ensure they make a profit whatever the direction of the market.<\/p>\n<p>That many hedge funds were spectacularly successful in the 2003-7 bull run and then spectacularly crashed in the current bear market indicates &quot;hedging&quot; may have had little bearing.<\/p>\n<p>Hedging is rife too in the energy markets, widely used to attempt to control industrial costs and nowhere more starkly than in the aviation fuel market.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/news_land.php?i=http:\/\/www.thisismoney.co.uk\/investing-and-markets\/article.html%3Fin_article_id%3D473089%26in_page_id%3D3%26position%3Dmoretopstories\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Read Complete Article<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is Money &#8211; Hedge will be one of those words forever linked to the great financial crisis of 2008. The hedge funds were supposedly money-minting schemes whereby fantastically intelligent financial whiz kids write fantastically complex programmes to ensure they [&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":[7040,4799,7043,7042,4726,7038,7041,48,7039],"class_list":["post-9811","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated","tag-aviation-fuel","tag-bear-market","tag-bull-run","tag-energy-markets","tag-financial-crisis","tag-financial-whiz","tag-fuel-market","tag-money","tag-whiz-kids"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9811","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=9811"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9811\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}