{"id":36378,"date":"2013-06-26T11:13:13","date_gmt":"2013-06-26T15:13:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=36378"},"modified":"2013-06-26T11:13:13","modified_gmt":"2013-06-26T15:13:13","slug":"u-s-hedge-fund-scout-steps-up-pressure-on-tim-hortons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/06\/2013\/u-s-hedge-fund-scout-steps-up-pressure-on-tim-hortons.html","title":{"rendered":"U.S. hedge fund Scout steps up pressure on Tim Hortons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Reuters &#8211; Scout Capital Management, a U.S. hedge fund, said on Tuesday it is urging Canadian coffee and doughnut chain Tim Hortons to increase its debt levels in order to fund a share buyback, measures that Scout say should help drive up Tim Horton&#8217;s share price by as much as 100 percent from current levels.<\/p>\n<p>The demands to Tim Hortons&#8217; board by New York-based Scout Capital are similar those put forward by rival U.S. hedge fund Highfields Capital earlier this year.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/2013\/06\/25\/us-timhortons-scout-idUSBRE95O1DK20130625\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Read Complete Article<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reuters &#8211; Scout Capital Management, a U.S. hedge fund, said on Tuesday it is urging Canadian coffee and doughnut chain Tim Hortons to increase its debt levels in order to fund a share buyback, measures that Scout say should help [&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-36378","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36378","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=36378"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36378\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36380,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36378\/revisions\/36380"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}