{"id":10311,"date":"2009-04-09T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-04-09T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T04:00:00","slug":"vulture-investors-are-looking-for-prey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/04\/2009\/vulture-investors-are-looking-for-prey.html","title":{"rendered":"Vulture investors are looking for prey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CNN Money &#8211; They pray for recessions and smile a little wider when a company climbs onto its death bed.<\/p>\n<p>Welcome to the world of distressed, or so-called &quot;vulture&quot; investors, an often-ignored corner of the market that has increasingly taken center stage as more businesses slip into bankruptcy or look to shed assets.<\/p>\n<p>There has been no shortage of corporate ruin lately. Lehman Brothers, which sent a shockwave across the financial system. Outside of the banking sector, electronics retailer Circuit City and media giant Tribune Co both filed for bankruptcy.<\/p>\n<p><strong><br \/><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/news_land.php?i=http:\/\/money.cnn.com\/2009\/04\/09\/news\/companies\/distressed_investors\/index.htm?postversion=2009040904\">Read Complete Article<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CNN Money &#8211; They pray for recessions and smile a little wider when a company climbs onto its death bed. Welcome to the world of distressed, or so-called &quot;vulture&quot; investors, an often-ignored corner of the market that has increasingly taken [&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":[4439,1398,2557,10075,10073,489,5256,10072,4504,4718,10071,6054,2749,10076,888,10074],"class_list":["post-10311","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated","tag-assets","tag-banking-sector","tag-bankruptcy","tag-center-stage","tag-circuit-city","tag-cnn","tag-cnn-money","tag-death-bed","tag-investors","tag-lehman-brothers","tag-media-giant","tag-recessions","tag-ruin","tag-shockwave","tag-tribune-co","tag-vulture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10311","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10311"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10311\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}