{"id":25471,"date":"2011-10-14T07:49:20","date_gmt":"2011-10-14T11:49:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=25471"},"modified":"2011-10-14T07:49:20","modified_gmt":"2011-10-14T11:49:20","slug":"hedge-funds-take-aim-at-canadian-banks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/10\/2011\/hedge-funds-take-aim-at-canadian-banks.html","title":{"rendered":"Hedge funds take aim at Canadian banks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Globe &amp; Mail &#8211; Canadian banks are often described as boring, safe and stable, but some speculators are beginning to apply another adjective: expensive.<\/p>\n<p>The country\u2019s five biggest banks trade at some of the highest price-earnings multiples in the global banking industry. That\u2019s partly because their shares have held up relatively well this year, while their peers worldwide got clobbered on concerns related to Europe\u2019s debt crisis and a possible recession in the U.S.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/globe-investor\/hedge-funds-take-aim-at-canadian-banks\/article2200582\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Read Compete Article<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Globe &amp; Mail &#8211; Canadian banks are often described as boring, safe and stable, but some speculators are beginning to apply another adjective: expensive. The country\u2019s five biggest banks trade at some of the highest price-earnings multiples in the global [&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-25471","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25471","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=25471"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25471\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25472,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25471\/revisions\/25472"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}