{"id":34978,"date":"2013-04-17T12:23:17","date_gmt":"2013-04-17T16:23:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=34978"},"modified":"2013-04-17T12:23:43","modified_gmt":"2013-04-17T16:23:43","slug":"hedge-funds-pressure-softbank-on-25-5b-dish-offer-for-sprint","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/04\/2013\/hedge-funds-pressure-softbank-on-25-5b-dish-offer-for-sprint.html","title":{"rendered":"Hedge Funds Pressure SoftBank on $25.5B Dish Offer for Sprint"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Street &#8211; Following Dish Network&#8217;s $25.5 billion offer to buy Sprint (S) on Monday, large hedge fund investors await a response from SoftBank, which previously offered to buy the telecom.<\/p>\n<p>In a brief Wednesday phone conversation, Leon Cooperman, head of Omega Advisors said while he sees Dish Network&#8217;s proposal for Sprint as superior to SoftBank&#8217;s offer, he awaits a response from the highly profitable Japan-based conglomerate.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thestreet.com\/story\/11897896\/1\/sprint-shareholders-await-response-to-dish.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Read Complete Article<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Street &#8211; Following Dish Network&#8217;s $25.5 billion offer to buy Sprint (S) on Monday, large hedge fund investors await a response from SoftBank, which previously offered to buy the telecom. In a brief Wednesday phone conversation, Leon Cooperman, head [&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-34978","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34978","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=34978"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34978\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34981,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34978\/revisions\/34981"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}