{"id":28633,"date":"2012-04-23T11:30:00","date_gmt":"2012-04-23T15:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=28633"},"modified":"2012-04-23T11:30:00","modified_gmt":"2012-04-23T15:30:00","slug":"hedge-fund-short-sellers-to-target-wal-mart-mexico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/04\/2012\/hedge-fund-short-sellers-to-target-wal-mart-mexico.html","title":{"rendered":"Hedge fund short-sellers to target Wal-Mart Mexico"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Reuters &#8211; Hedge fund managers are bracing for selling pressure in shares of Wal-Mart Stores Inc on Monday, but market experts said it is the retail giant&#8217;s less visible Mexican unit that could be the more attractive target for short sellers.<\/p>\n<p>The New York Times reported on Saturday that Wal-Mart de Mexico, which is 69 percent owned by Wal-Mart Stories Inc, had orchestrated a widespread bribery campaign in 2005 to win market dominance. The investigative article alleged that senior Wal-Mart executives knew about the matter and tried to cover it up.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/2012\/04\/22\/us-walmart-shorts-idUSBRE83L0FP20120422\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Read Complete Article<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reuters &#8211; Hedge fund managers are bracing for selling pressure in shares of Wal-Mart Stores Inc on Monday, but market experts said it is the retail giant&#8217;s less visible Mexican unit that could be the more attractive target for short [&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-28633","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28633","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=28633"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28633\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28634,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28633\/revisions\/28634"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28633"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}