{"id":38969,"date":"2013-11-07T03:48:52","date_gmt":"2013-11-07T08:48:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=38969"},"modified":"2013-11-07T03:48:52","modified_gmt":"2013-11-07T08:48:52","slug":"will-twitter-ipo-pop-hedge-funds-weigh-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/11\/2013\/will-twitter-ipo-pop-hedge-funds-weigh-in.html","title":{"rendered":"Will Twitter IPO pop? Hedge funds weigh in"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CNBC &#8211; The financial community will be watching whether the so-called smart money invests in\u00a0Twitter&#8217;s\u00a0initial public offering.<\/p>\n<p>Anecdotal evidence suggests some larger hedge funds are at least showing interest. Representatives of Dan Loeb&#8217;s $14 billion Third Point and multi-billion-dollar family office Soros Fund Management took meetings with Twitter executives in New York City last week, though it&#8217;s unclear if either put in for a stake, according to people with knowledge of the meetings. And Samlyn Capital, a hedge fund that managed about $3.4 billion as of July, was among the firms requesting to invest in the new stock, according to a\u00a0CNBC source. All three firms either declined to comment or did not respond to a request.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/id\/101176014\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Read Complete Article<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CNBC &#8211; The financial community will be watching whether the so-called smart money invests in\u00a0Twitter&#8217;s\u00a0initial public offering. Anecdotal evidence suggests some larger hedge funds are at least showing interest. Representatives of Dan Loeb&#8217;s $14 billion Third Point and multi-billion-dollar family [&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-38969","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38969","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=38969"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38969\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38970,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38969\/revisions\/38970"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}