{"id":23312,"date":"2011-07-05T07:20:48","date_gmt":"2011-07-05T11:20:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=23312"},"modified":"2011-07-05T07:20:48","modified_gmt":"2011-07-05T11:20:48","slug":"brazil-hedge-funds-double-bets-against-pao-de-acucar-carrefour-merger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/07\/2011\/brazil-hedge-funds-double-bets-against-pao-de-acucar-carrefour-merger.html","title":{"rendered":"Brazil Hedge Funds Double Bets Against Pao de Acucar-Carrefour Merger"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bloomberg &#8211; Brazilian\u00a0hedge funds doubled bets that shares of retailer Cia. Brasileira de Distribuicao Grupo Pao de Acucar will decline on speculation a proposed merger with\u00a0Carrefour SA (CA)\u2019s unit in\u00a0Brazilmay fail to win approval.<\/p>\n<p>Pao de Acucar stocks on loan, an indication of short selling,\u00a0rose to 6.957 million shares, or 496.3 million reais on July 1, from 2.69 million shares, or 176.4 million reais on June 27,\u00a0before the merger announcement, according to Brazil\u2019s clearing and depositary corporation. The average daily volume over the past 12 months was 963,566 trades, according to Bloomberg data.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/2011-07-04\/brazil-hedge-funds-double-bets-against-pao-de-acucar-carrefour-merger.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Read Complete Article<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bloomberg &#8211; Brazilian\u00a0hedge funds doubled bets that shares of retailer Cia. Brasileira de Distribuicao Grupo Pao de Acucar will decline on speculation a proposed merger with\u00a0Carrefour SA (CA)\u2019s unit in\u00a0Brazilmay fail to win approval. Pao de Acucar stocks on loan, [&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-23312","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23312","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=23312"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23312\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23314,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23312\/revisions\/23314"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}