{"id":49717,"date":"2015-08-26T08:07:43","date_gmt":"2015-08-26T12:07:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=49717"},"modified":"2015-08-26T08:07:43","modified_gmt":"2015-08-26T12:07:43","slug":"hedge-funds-set-to-bank-millions-by-short-selling-during-london-square-slump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/08\/2015\/hedge-funds-set-to-bank-millions-by-short-selling-during-london-square-slump.html","title":{"rendered":"Hedge Funds Set to Bank Millions by Short Selling During London Square Slump"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(The Guardian) Hedge funds are set to bank tens of millions of pounds from the slump in share prices in London. The funds making the bets include Lansdowne Partners, which is run by George Osborne\u2019s best man, Peter Davies, and Odey Asset Management, which is led by Crispin Odey \u2013 who made millions by predicting the credit crisis and earlier this year said the world was heading for a downturn \u201clikely to be remembered in 100 years\u201d.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2015\/aug\/25\/hedge-funds-set-to-bank-millions-by-short-selling-during-london-share-slump\">To read this article:<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(The Guardian) Hedge funds are set to bank tens of millions of pounds from the slump in share prices in London. The funds making the bets include Lansdowne Partners, which is run by George Osborne\u2019s best man, Peter Davies, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49717","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49717","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49717"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49717\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49718,"href":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49717\/revisions\/49718"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}