{"id":10690,"date":"2009-05-28T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-05-28T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T04:00:00","slug":"sports-direct-sells-jjb-stake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/05\/2009\/sports-direct-sells-jjb-stake.html","title":{"rendered":"Sports Direct sells JJB stake"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> Belfast Telegraph &#8211; Mike Ashley&#8217;s Sports Direct International has offloaded its 4.8%    directly-owned stake in struggling rival JJB Sports, it was revealed today. <\/p>\n<p> Speculation was mounting over the identity of the buyer after the Sports World    parent sold 11.9 million ordinary shares. <\/p>\n<p> But it is thought that Mr Ashley &#8211; also the owner of recently relegated    Newcastle Football Club &#8211; still holds further JJB shares through contracts    for difference, which are a type of derivative. <\/p>\n<p>  <strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/news_land.php?i=http:\/\/www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk\/business\/business-news\/sports-direct-sells-jjb-stake-14316513.html\">Read Complete Article<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Belfast Telegraph &#8211; Mike Ashley&#8217;s Sports Direct International has offloaded its 4.8% directly-owned stake in struggling rival JJB Sports, it was revealed today. Speculation was mounting over the identity of the buyer after the Sports World parent sold 11.9 million [&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":[12311,2431,12313,12312,12310,3997,12314,4742,12315,1422],"class_list":["post-10690","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated","tag-belfast-telegraph","tag-contracts","tag-jjb-sports","tag-mike-ashley","tag-newcastle-football-club","tag-ordinary-shares","tag-s-sports","tag-speculation","tag-sports-world","tag-stake"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10690","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=10690"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10690\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}