{"id":5145,"date":"2006-10-13T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2006-10-13T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T04:00:00","slug":"hedge-funds-seen-posing-risk-to-mkts-tighter-regulations-needed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.hedgeco.net\/news\/10\/2006\/hedge-funds-seen-posing-risk-to-mkts-tighter-regulations-needed.html","title":{"rendered":"Hedge funds seen posing risk to mkts, tighter regulations needed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Forbes &#8211; <span class=\"mainarttxt\">Hedge funds present a risk to the financial markets and tighter regulations are needed, a majority of private economists said in a new survey conducted by the onlineedition of the Wall Street Journal.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"mainarttxt\">In a survey conducted during Oct 6-10, more than half of respondents in the WSJ.com survey &#8212; 23 out of 41 who answered the question &#8212; said regulation and supervision ofhedge funds is too light. Sixteen economists said it was &#8216;just right&#8217; and two said it was &#8216;too tough.&#8217;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"mainarttxt\">About 60 pct said hedge funds pose a risk to financial markets, the Journal reported in its online edition.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"mainarttxt\">The explosive growth of hedge funds and their aggressive use of borrowed money have raised alarms about whether a financial crisis could set off a chain reaction ofhedge-fund failures that could cause chaos in the financial system.<\/span><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/markets\/feeds\/afx\/2006\/10\/12\/afx3088167.html\">Read Complete Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Forbes &#8211; Hedge funds present a risk to the financial markets and tighter regulations are needed, a majority of private economists said in a new survey conducted by the onlineedition of the Wall Street Journal. In a survey conducted during [&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-5145","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5145","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=5145"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staging.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5145\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}