{"id":27556,"date":"2012-02-22T11:59:17","date_gmt":"2012-02-22T16:59:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=27556"},"modified":"2012-02-22T11:59:17","modified_gmt":"2012-02-22T16:59:17","slug":"hedge-funds-re-enter-market-as-ma-activity-picks-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/02\/2012\/hedge-funds-re-enter-market-as-ma-activity-picks-up.html","title":{"rendered":"Hedge Funds Re-Enter Market As M&#038;A Activity Picks Up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dow Jones &#8211; Hedge funds look set to take center stage as European merger-and-acquisition activity starts to pick up after a long drought and as bets on winning prices and bidders trigger dramatic rises in the stock price of target companies.<\/p>\n<p>Just Monday, shares in TNT Express NV (TNTE) surged 60% after it rejected United Parcel Service Inc.&#8217;s (UPS) EUR4.9 billion takeover offer late the previous week and investors speculated that any eventual deal with either UPS or another suitor would be done at a much higher price.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/BT-CO-20120222-712142.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Read Complete Article<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dow Jones &#8211; Hedge funds look set to take center stage as European merger-and-acquisition activity starts to pick up after a long drought and as bets on winning prices and bidders trigger dramatic rises in the stock price of target [&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-27556","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27556","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=27556"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27556\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27557,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27556\/revisions\/27557"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}