{"id":21000,"date":"2011-03-04T06:46:08","date_gmt":"2011-03-04T11:46:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=21000"},"modified":"2011-03-04T06:46:08","modified_gmt":"2011-03-04T11:46:08","slug":"hedge-funds-could-clip-news-corps-bid-for-bskyb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/03\/2011\/hedge-funds-could-clip-news-corps-bid-for-bskyb.html","title":{"rendered":"Hedge funds could clip News Corp&#8217;s bid for BSkyB"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Telegraph &#8211; Just like a plotline from a Sky drama, there\u2019s an intriguing twist in the battle for BSkyB. The chief opponent of News Corporation\u2019s bid to buy BSkyB is hedge fund manager Crispin Odey \u2013 who is also Rupert Murdoch\u2019s former son-in-law.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Odey, who was briefly married to Pru Murdoch, has long argued that BSkyB\u2019s shares are cheap and that the real value will come through over the next few years. Yesterday his fund, which has held a stake since 2003, was thought to be looking for a bid of as much as 950p.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/finance\/newsbysector\/mediatechnologyandtelecoms\/8360520\/Hedge-funds-could-clip-News-Corps-bid-for-BSkyB.html\" target=\"_blank\">Read Complete Article<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Telegraph &#8211; Just like a plotline from a Sky drama, there\u2019s an intriguing twist in the battle for BSkyB. The chief opponent of News Corporation\u2019s bid to buy BSkyB is hedge fund manager Crispin Odey \u2013 who is also [&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":[],"class_list":["post-21000","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21000","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=21000"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21000\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21001,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21000\/revisions\/21001"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}