{"id":9946,"date":"2009-02-23T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-02-23T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T04:00:00","slug":"curb-on-hedge-funds-likely-as-eu-leaders-back-reforms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/02\/2009\/curb-on-hedge-funds-likely-as-eu-leaders-back-reforms.html","title":{"rendered":"Curb on hedge funds likely as EU leaders back reforms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Independent &#8211; European leaders backed major reform of hedge funds yesterday as part of structural changes to help the world&#8217;s financial institutions emerge stronger from the global economic crisis.<\/p>\n<p>Short-selling by the secretive hedge fund industry &#8212; selling borrowed stock in the anticipation that the prices will fall &#8212; was blamed by some politicians for exacerbating the banking crisis and economic meltdown.<\/p>\n<p>A copy of the summary from the summit hosted by German Chancellor Angela Merkel in Berlin said banks should bring in reforms to ensure they build up a buffer of resources in good times and called for sanctions against tax havens.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/news_land.php?i=http:\/\/www.independent.ie\/world-news\/europe\/curb-on-hedge-funds-likely-as-eu-leaders--back-reforms-1649564.html\">Read Complete Article<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Independent &#8211; European leaders backed major reform of hedge funds yesterday as part of structural changes to help the world&#8217;s financial institutions emerge stronger from the global economic crisis. Short-selling by the secretive hedge fund industry &#8212; selling borrowed stock [&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":[87,7988,6476,4306,7989,1148,7987,7971,1301,7985,7986,5225,3169,7973,336,455,7969],"class_list":["post-9946","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated","tag-angela-merkel","tag-anticipation","tag-banking-crisis","tag-banks","tag-berlin","tag-chancellor-angela-merkel","tag-economic-meltdown","tag-european-leaders","tag-financial-institutions","tag-german-chancellor-angela-merkel","tag-global-economic-crisis","tag-good-times","tag-politicians","tag-sanctions","tag-stock","tag-summit","tag-tax-havens"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9946","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=9946"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9946\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}