{"id":59307,"date":"2017-08-04T07:46:16","date_gmt":"2017-08-04T11:46:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=59307"},"modified":"2017-08-04T07:46:16","modified_gmt":"2017-08-04T11:46:16","slug":"the-oil-trader-known-as-god-is-closing-down-his-main-hedge-fund","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/08\/2017\/the-oil-trader-known-as-god-is-closing-down-his-main-hedge-fund.html","title":{"rendered":"The Oil Trader Known as \u2018God\u2019 Is Closing Down His Main Hedge Fund"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(Bloomberg) If an oil trader so good that he was known as \u201cGod\u201d can\u2019t win in today\u2019s markets, it\u2019s hard to imagine who can.   Andy Hall is closing down his main hedge fund after big losses in the first half of the year, according to people with knowledge of the matter. His flagship Astenbeck Master Commodities Fund II lost almost 30 percent through June, a separate person with knowledge of the matter said, asking not to be identified because the details are private.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2017-08-03\/oil-trader-andy-hall-is-said-to-close-main-astenbeck-hedge-fund\">To read this article:<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Bloomberg) If an oil trader so good that he was known as \u201cGod\u201d can\u2019t win in today\u2019s markets, it\u2019s hard to imagine who can. Andy Hall is closing down his main hedge fund after big losses in the first half [&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-59307","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59307","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=59307"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59307\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59308,"href":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59307\/revisions\/59308"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}