{"id":36218,"date":"2013-06-18T09:59:54","date_gmt":"2013-06-18T13:59:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=36218"},"modified":"2013-06-18T09:59:54","modified_gmt":"2013-06-18T13:59:54","slug":"hedge-fund-could-thwart-chinese-takeover-of-us-pork","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/06\/2013\/hedge-fund-could-thwart-chinese-takeover-of-us-pork.html","title":{"rendered":"Hedge Fund Could Thwart Chinese Takeover of US Pork"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Epoch Times &#8211; An activist investor could scuttle a proposed bid by China to acquire Smithfield Foods Inc., the biggest U.S. pork processor and hog producer.<\/p>\n<p>On Monday, the hedge fund Starboard Value LP sent a letter to the board of Smithfield, arguing that the company should split its businesses and sell them individually, instead of going forward with a proposed $4.7 billion sale, including debt, to a Chinese meat processor.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/n3\/113979-hedge-fund-could-thwart-chinese-takeover-of-us-pork\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Read Complete Article<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Epoch Times &#8211; An activist investor could scuttle a proposed bid by China to acquire Smithfield Foods Inc., the biggest U.S. pork processor and hog producer. On Monday, the hedge fund Starboard Value LP sent a letter to the board [&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-36218","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36218","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=36218"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36218\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36226,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36218\/revisions\/36226"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}