{"id":3575,"date":"2005-11-10T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2005-11-10T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T04:00:00","slug":"mcdonald-in-the-pressure-cooker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/11\/2005\/mcdonald-in-the-pressure-cooker.html","title":{"rendered":"McDonald&#8217;s in the pressure cooker &#8211; Chicago Sun-Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>  Pressure mounted on McDonald&#8217;s to break itself up Monday, with a major shareholder calling for the hamburger giant to spin off its company-owned restaurants.<\/p>\n<p>  William Ackman, the general partner of Pershing Square L.P., pledged to divulge the details of his proposal at an investment conference next week in New York City. Pershing, a hedge fund, owns 4.9  percent of McDonald&#8217;s shares.<\/p>\n<p>  &#8220;We are looking forward to explaining our thinking come next Tuesday,&#8221; Ackman said.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.suntimes.com\/output\/business\/cst-fin-mac10.html\">Read Complete Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pressure mounted on McDonald&#8217;s to break itself up Monday, with a major shareholder calling for the hamburger giant to spin off its company-owned restaurants. William Ackman, the general partner of Pershing Square L.P., pledged to divulge the details of his [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3575","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3575","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3575"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3575\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}