{"id":71175,"date":"2019-10-02T01:13:52","date_gmt":"2019-10-02T05:13:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=71175"},"modified":"2019-10-02T01:13:52","modified_gmt":"2019-10-02T05:13:52","slug":"short-selling-can-hedge-funds-make-a-fortune-from-no-deal-brexit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/10\/2019\/short-selling-can-hedge-funds-make-a-fortune-from-no-deal-brexit.html","title":{"rendered":"Short-selling: can hedge funds make a fortune from no-deal Brexit?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n(The Guardian) Hedge fund millionaires backing Boris Johnson will make a killing from a no-deal Brexit, according to the former chancellor Philip Hammond. The claim is these \u201cshort sellers\u201d are betting on big falls in share prices and the value of sterling in what critics say is a classic example of \u201cdisaster capitalism\u201d. But how do they do it, who are they and are they all merchants of doom?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2019\/sep\/30\/short-selling-hedge-funds-fortune-no-deal-brexit-boris-johnson\">To read this article:<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(The Guardian) Hedge fund millionaires backing Boris Johnson will make a killing from a no-deal Brexit, according to the former chancellor Philip Hammond. The claim is these \u201cshort sellers\u201d are betting on big falls in share prices and the value [&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-71175","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71175","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=71175"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71175\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71176,"href":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71175\/revisions\/71176"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}