{"id":4750,"date":"2023-11-13T02:07:23","date_gmt":"2023-11-13T00:07:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dhcab.com\/?p=4750"},"modified":"2023-11-13T02:07:23","modified_gmt":"2023-11-13T00:07:23","slug":"hedge-funds-short-us-financial-stocks-at-near-record-levels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dhcab.com\/?p=4750","title":{"rendered":"Hedge funds short US financial stocks at near record levels"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"postie-post\">\n<div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Global hedge funds built bearish positions this week to the highest level in nearly five years, Reuters reported.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Financials was the most net sold sector on the US prime book this week and saw the largest net selling in seven weeks, driven entirely by short sales,&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>the Goldman Sachs&#8217;s prime insights &amp; analytics team said in a note about trading flows.<\/p>\n<p>Overall, hedge funds are underweight financials, at the lowest level since May 2020, the bank said.<\/p>\n<p>US banks stocks have dropped this year amid the sector&#8217;s struggles over the past year and a half.<\/p>\n<p>The KBW Bank index is down nearly 23% year to date, while the S&amp;P 500 Banks index fell over 11.26%.<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Global hedge funds built bearish positions this week to the highest level in nearly five years, Reuters reported. &#8220;Financials was the most net sold sector on the US prime book this week and saw the largest net selling in seven weeks, driven entirely by short sales,&#8221; the Goldman Sachs&#8217;s prime insights &amp; analytics team said [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4751,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4750","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-global-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dhcab.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4750","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dhcab.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dhcab.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dhcab.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dhcab.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4750"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.dhcab.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4750\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dhcab.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4751"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dhcab.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dhcab.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dhcab.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}