{"id":9941,"date":"2009-02-20T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-02-20T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T04:00:00","slug":"in-texas-a-king-of-the-asian-commodities-market","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/02\/2009\/in-texas-a-king-of-the-asian-commodities-market.html","title":{"rendered":"In Texas, a king of the Asian commodities market"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Seattle Times &#8211; Just a third of hedge funds with assets of more than $100 million had positive returns in 2008, according to data compiled by Bloomberg. Abraham Trading Diversified Program, a small operation in rural Texas, was up 30 percent in 2008.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s late on a Sunday evening in October, and Salem Abraham is the last diner at the Cattle Exchange steakhouse. Abraham is a businessman and lifelong resident of this tiny oasis of a town &mdash; population 2,277 &mdash; nestled among cattle ranches in the desolate Texas Panhandle, its green hills watered by the Canadian River.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/news_land.php?i=http:\/\/seattletimes.nwsource.com\/html\/businesstechnology\/2008764814_abrahamprofile22.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Read Complete Article<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Seattle Times &#8211; Just a third of hedge funds with assets of more than $100 million had positive returns in 2008, according to data compiled by Bloomberg. Abraham Trading Diversified Program, a small operation in rural Texas, was up 30 [&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":[310,7946,4439,1488,7942,7943,7944,5289,2024,1236,1710,7945,7941],"class_list":["post-9941","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated","tag-100-million","tag-abraham","tag-assets","tag-businessman","tag-cattle-ranches","tag-diversified-program","tag-lifelong-resident","tag-mdash","tag-population","tag-seattle-times","tag-sunday-evening","tag-texas-panhandle","tag-tiny-oasis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9941","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=9941"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9941\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}