{"id":4632,"date":"2006-06-23T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2006-06-23T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T04:00:00","slug":"if-hedge-funds-made-the-mess-they-can-fix-it-too","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.hedgeco.net\/news\/06\/2006\/if-hedge-funds-made-the-mess-they-can-fix-it-too.html","title":{"rendered":"If Hedge Funds Made the Mess, They Can Fix It Too"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>  June 23 (Bloomberg) &#8212; After the mighty uproar in the stock and commodities markets lately, the best part of the story may remain to be told.<\/p>\n<p>  It probably won&#8217;t be as dramatic as the lightning-fast bear markets that struck emerging-economy stocks, gold and some other commodities. From May 11 through June 13, the Morgan Stanley Capital  International Emerging Markets Index dropped 24 percent; the Ishares Comex Gold Trust lost 22 percent, and the Ishares Silver Trust plunged 35 percent.<\/p>\n<p>  All three of those declines met the simplest rule-of-thumb standard for a bear market &#8212; a drop of 20 percent or more. Most traditional definitions also stipulate that the losses should occur over  a sustained period. But those definitions were written in a day and age when many things took longer than they do in the 21st century.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/news\/url?sa=T&amp;ct=us\/1-0&amp;fd=R&amp;url=http:\/\/quote.bloomberg.com\/apps\/news%3Fpid%3D10000039%26refer%3Dcolumnist_currier%26sid%3Da.2lJicRXOno&amp;cid=0&amp;ei=qOWbRJK4LoWuoQKOjq3EBg\"><strong>Read Complete Article<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>June 23 (Bloomberg) &#8212; After the mighty uproar in the stock and commodities markets lately, the best part of the story may remain to be told. It probably won&#8217;t be as dramatic as the lightning-fast bear markets that struck emerging-economy [&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-4632","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4632","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4632"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staging.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4632\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}