{"id":36062,"date":"2013-06-11T10:21:04","date_gmt":"2013-06-11T14:21:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=36062"},"modified":"2013-06-11T10:21:04","modified_gmt":"2013-06-11T14:21:04","slug":"hedge-funds-build-stakes-in-severn-trent-as-bid-hangs-in-balance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/06\/2013\/hedge-funds-build-stakes-in-severn-trent-as-bid-hangs-in-balance.html","title":{"rendered":"Hedge funds build stakes in Severn Trent as bid hangs in balance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Reuters &#8211; Two U.S. hedge fund giants have placed bold bets to profit from an attempted takeover of British water company Severn Trent that now hangs in the balance with a consortium threatening to walk away after three spurned bids.<\/p>\n<p>While the investors could be nursing losses from a steep share price decline on Monday, they stand to gain if bid talks resume as management comes under pressure from major Severn Trent shareholders keen for a deal.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/uk.reuters.com\/article\/2013\/06\/10\/borealis-severntrent-hedgefunds-idUKL5N0EM3HI20130610\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Read Complete Article<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reuters &#8211; Two U.S. hedge fund giants have placed bold bets to profit from an attempted takeover of British water company Severn Trent that now hangs in the balance with a consortium threatening to walk away after three spurned bids. [&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-36062","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36062","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=36062"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36062\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36063,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36062\/revisions\/36063"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}