{"id":22622,"date":"2011-05-23T06:33:14","date_gmt":"2011-05-23T10:33:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=22622"},"modified":"2011-05-23T06:33:14","modified_gmt":"2011-05-23T10:33:14","slug":"buyers-battle-for-europes-bad-loans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/05\/2011\/buyers-battle-for-europes-bad-loans.html","title":{"rendered":"Buyers Battle for Europe&#8217;s Bad Loans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wall Street Journal &#8211; As banks across Europe clean up their balance sheets, it is causing a feeding frenzy among hedge funds and private-equity firms hungry for their troubled assets.<\/p>\n<p>Many marquee funds are flocking around the dozens of European lenders that recently have ratcheted up efforts to get rid of soured loans and other assets, a legacy of profligate lending and investing before the financial crisis.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB10001424052748704083904576335510788215984.html\" target=\"_blank\">Read Complete Article<\/a><\/strong> (subscription required)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wall Street Journal &#8211; As banks across Europe clean up their balance sheets, it is causing a feeding frenzy among hedge funds and private-equity firms hungry for their troubled assets. Many marquee funds are flocking around the dozens of European [&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-22622","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22622","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=22622"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22622\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22624,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22622\/revisions\/22624"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}