{"id":21660,"date":"2011-04-04T07:40:54","date_gmt":"2011-04-04T11:40:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=21660"},"modified":"2011-04-04T07:40:54","modified_gmt":"2011-04-04T11:40:55","slug":"elliott-piles-pressure-on-uk-targets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/04\/2011\/elliott-piles-pressure-on-uk-targets.html","title":{"rendered":"Elliott piles pressure on UK targets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>City AM &#8211; Activist hedge fund Elliott Advisors has stepped up its assault on two UK companies after garnering the support of extra shareholders.<\/p>\n<p>At National Express, where it has built up a 17 per cent stake and called for a shake-up of strategy, it is expected to receive the backing of the transport group\u2019s largest shareholder, Spain\u2019s Cosmen family.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cityam.com\/news-and-analysis\/elliott-piles-pressure-uk-targets\" target=\"_blank\">Read Complete Article<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>City AM &#8211; Activist hedge fund Elliott Advisors has stepped up its assault on two UK companies after garnering the support of extra shareholders. At National Express, where it has built up a 17 per cent stake and called for [&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-21660","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21660","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=21660"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21660\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21662,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21660\/revisions\/21662"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}