{"id":34326,"date":"2013-03-07T08:28:13","date_gmt":"2013-03-07T13:28:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=34326"},"modified":"2013-03-07T08:28:13","modified_gmt":"2013-03-07T13:28:13","slug":"activist-us-hedge-fund-halves-national-express-stake-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/03\/2013\/activist-us-hedge-fund-halves-national-express-stake-2.html","title":{"rendered":"Activist US hedge fund halves National Express stake"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Telegraph &#8211; Elliott Advisors, which failed it its attempt to put three of its own representatives on the board and force the company into a merger, placed just over 50m shares at about 215p.<\/p>\n<p>The placing, which came after the market closed, was handled by Bank of America Merrill Lynch. Prior to the stock sale, National Express shares had closed at 230p, up 4.9.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/finance\/newsbysector\/transport\/9913856\/Activist-US-hedge-fund-halves-National-Express-stake.html\"><strong>Read Complete Article<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Telegraph &#8211; Elliott Advisors, which failed it its attempt to put three of its own representatives on the board and force the company into a merger, placed just over 50m shares at about 215p. The placing, which came after the [&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-34326","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34326","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=34326"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34326\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34327,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34326\/revisions\/34327"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}