{"id":667249,"date":"2010-02-17T08:27:00","date_gmt":"2010-02-17T13:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"e2249889-c78b-43e3-9643-b1d7d4aa587b:396881"},"modified":"2010-02-17T08:27:00","modified_gmt":"2010-02-17T13:27:00","slug":"record-short-positions-could-produce-equity-rally","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/667249","title":{"rendered":"Record short positions could produce equity rally"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With investors continuing to be fixated on the possibility of a Greek default, speculators remain massively short both the S&amp;P 500 and the Euro.<\/p>\n<p>Current net short positions on the U.S. benchmark are the most extreme on record, according to National Bank Financial.<\/p>\n<p>As a result, if a credible political and institutional framework to help Greece deliver on its fiscal reform commitments emerges from the European Union, it could serve as a catalyst for a meaningful rebound in global equity markets, chief economist and strategist St\u00e9fane Marion said in a note to clients. <\/p>\n<p>That is, of course, if risk aversion positions are unwound. <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/network.nationalpost.com\/NP\/aggbug.aspx?PostID=396881\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With investors continuing to be fixated on the possibility of a Greek default, speculators remain massively short both the S&amp;P 500 and the Euro. Current net short positions on the U.S. benchmark are the most extreme on record, according to National Bank Financial. As a result, if a credible political and institutional framework to help [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2570,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-667249","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2NA5","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/667249","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2570"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=667249"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/667249\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=667249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=667249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=667249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}