{"id":11563,"date":"2009-09-02T02:55:09","date_gmt":"2009-09-02T10:55:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=11563"},"modified":"2009-09-02T02:55:09","modified_gmt":"2009-09-02T10:55:09","slug":"smart-money-analysis-paulsons-anglogold-bet-points-to-inflation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/09\/2009\/smart-money-analysis-paulsons-anglogold-bet-points-to-inflation.html","title":{"rendered":"Smart Money Analysis-Paulson&#8217;s AngloGold bet points to inflation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Reuters &#8211; Billionaire hedge fund manager John Paulson&#8217;s big stake in AngloGold Ashanti\u00a0 is a strand of his heavy exposure to gold and not designed to gain from the slim chance of a merger bid.<\/p>\n<p>Before making billions of profits shorting mortgages and banks in 2007 and 2008, Paulson &amp; Co bought and shorted stocks involved in mergers and other corporate events.<\/p>\n<p>Yet mining giant AngloGold is out of bounds to all but its largest rivals as a takeover candidate, industry observers say, and Paulson&#8217;s 12 percent stake in the group can hardly be a bet its shares will rise on the back of a bid.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Read Complete Article\" href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/etfNews\/idUSN0150657920090902?FORM=ZZNR2\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Read Complete Article<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reuters &#8211; Billionaire hedge fund manager John Paulson&#8217;s big stake in AngloGold Ashanti\u00a0 is a strand of his heavy exposure to gold and not designed to gain from the slim chance of a merger bid. Before making billions of profits [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[37,1917,10547],"class_list":["post-11563","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated","tag-hedge-fund-manager","tag-inflation","tag-mergers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11563","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11563"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11563\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11565,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11563\/revisions\/11565"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}