{"id":26157,"date":"2011-11-22T08:15:06","date_gmt":"2011-11-22T13:15:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=26157"},"modified":"2011-11-22T08:15:32","modified_gmt":"2011-11-22T13:15:32","slug":"jefferies-blames-lies-hedge-funds-as-shares-plunge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/11\/2011\/jefferies-blames-lies-hedge-funds-as-shares-plunge.html","title":{"rendered":"Jefferies blames lies, hedge funds as shares plunge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Times Colonist &#8211; New York-based investment bank Jefferies Group Inc. lashed out at &#8220;malicious lies&#8221; spread by unnamed hedge funds Monday, blaming them for a plunge in its stock that has sent shares to three-year lows.<\/p>\n<p>In a letter addressed to shareholders, Jefferies CEO Rich Handler lists seven &#8220;falsehoods&#8221; he says are being spread in the market to weigh down Jefferies&#8217; stock. The letter follows a previous one released earlier in the month which outlined the bank&#8217;s asset exposure to the euro-zone periphery.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.timescolonist.com\/business\/Jefferies+blames+lies+hedge+funds+shares+plunge\/5748616\/story.html\" target=\"_blank\">Read Complete Article<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Times Colonist &#8211; New York-based investment bank Jefferies Group Inc. lashed out at &#8220;malicious lies&#8221; spread by unnamed hedge funds Monday, blaming them for a plunge in its stock that has sent shares to three-year lows. In a letter addressed [&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-26157","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26157","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=26157"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26157\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26159,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26157\/revisions\/26159"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}