{"id":407309,"date":"2010-03-09T09:39:00","date_gmt":"2010-03-09T14:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/the-dollar-is-hedge-funds-favorite-currency-right-now-2010-3"},"modified":"2010-03-09T09:39:00","modified_gmt":"2010-03-09T14:39:00","slug":"the-dollar-is-hedge-funds-favorite-currency-right-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/407309","title":{"rendered":"The Dollar Is Hedge Funds&#8217; Favorite Currency Right Now"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"float_right\" src=\"http:\/\/static.businessinsider.com\/image\/4afc739d00000000002823bc-350-262\/cash-dollars-money.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"cash dollars money\" width=\"350\" height=\"262\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The majority of hedge fund managers surveyed say their favorite currency right now is the dollar.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/BT-CO-20100309-706525.html?mod=WSJ_World_MIDDLEHeadlinesAsia\">The TrimTabs\/Barclay Hedge survey<\/a> in February asked 61 traders and fund managers (they have an average of $113 million in assets under management) what their favorite currencies were.<\/p>\n<p>The dollar won the majority, with 57% voting it as their favorite, the Brazilian real and the Australian dollar are &#8220;distant seconds,&#8221; and Sterling was the least favorite, with only 3% of respondents.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/BT-CO-20100309-706525.html?mod=WSJ_World_MIDDLEHeadlinesAsia\">The Wall Street Journal<\/a> points out that their favoring the dollar likely means hedge fund managers don&#8217;t expect interest rates to rise any time soon.<\/p>\n<p>A survey taken a couple of weeks ago reveals concurring data: most <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/bofa-merrill-lynch-hedge-fund-managers-now-say-interest-rates-will-stay-low-for-a-really-long-time-2010-2\">hedge fund managers don&#8217;t think rates will rise until after 2011.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/the-dollar-is-hedge-funds-favorite-currency-right-now-2010-3#comments\">Join the conversation about this story &#187;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>See Also:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/the-dollar-is-the-new-dow-2010-3\">The Dollar Is The New Dow<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/we-are-all-dollar-bulls-now-2010-2\">We Are All Dollar Bulls Now<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/commodities-soaring-as-equities-us-dollar-fall-2010-3\">Commodities Soaring As Equities, US Dollar Fall<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/TheMoneyGame\/~4\/BOKTRemQKIE\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The majority of hedge fund managers surveyed say their favorite currency right now is the dollar. The TrimTabs\/Barclay Hedge survey in February asked 61 traders and fund managers (they have an average of $113 million in assets under management) what their favorite currencies were. The dollar won the majority, with 57% voting it as their [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-407309","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407309","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=407309"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407309\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=407309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=407309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=407309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}