{"id":5610,"date":"2007-01-30T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2007-01-30T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T04:00:00","slug":"pensions-pile-into-commods-amid-volatile-oil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/01\/2007\/pensions-pile-into-commods-amid-volatile-oil.html","title":{"rendered":"Pensions pile into commods amid volatile oil"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>  NEW YORK (Reuters) &#8211; Institutional investors expected to pour another $25 billion into commodities this year are steadily building new long positions in energy markets amid selling pressure from  hedge funds and other speculators.<\/p>\n<p>  An infusion of cash by pension funds investing passively in commodity indexes helped oil recover last week from a weak start to 2007, Lehman Brothers said in a report issued Friday.<\/p>\n<p>  It said the new investments could presage the additional $25 billion that such investors were expected to put into long-only investment strategies this year.<\/p>\n<p>  <a href=  \"http:\/\/today.reuters.com\/news\/newsArticle.aspx?type=reutersEdge&amp;storyID=2007-01-30T124834Z_01_N29208999_RTRUKOC_0_US-MARKETS-COMMODITIES-INVESTMENT.xml&amp;WTmodLoc=EntNewsTV_R3_reutersEdge-2\">  <strong>Read Complete Article<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW YORK (Reuters) &#8211; Institutional investors expected to pour another $25 billion into commodities this year are steadily building new long positions in energy markets amid selling pressure from hedge funds and other speculators. An infusion of cash by pension [&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":[],"class_list":["post-5610","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5610","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5610"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5610\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}