{"id":40200,"date":"2014-01-22T11:43:09","date_gmt":"2014-01-22T16:43:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=40200"},"modified":"2014-01-22T11:43:09","modified_gmt":"2014-01-22T16:43:09","slug":"hedge-fund-acquires-stake-in-dow-calls-for-spin-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/01\/2014\/hedge-fund-acquires-stake-in-dow-calls-for-spin-off.html","title":{"rendered":"Hedge fund acquires stake in Dow, calls for spin-off"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Philly.com &#8211; Third Point L.L.C., the hedge fund led by the billionaire Daniel Loeb, has taken a stake in Dow Chemical Co. and called for a spin-off of its petrochemicals business to improve profitability.<\/p>\n<p>Third Point&#8217;s stake in Dow is its largest current investment, the hedge fund said Tuesday in a letter to investors. Dow should hire external advisers to review its strategy and the potential benefits of a spin-off, Third Point said.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.philly.com\/philly\/business\/20140122_Hedge_fund_acquires_stake_in_Dow__calls_for_spin-off.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Read Complete Article<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Philly.com &#8211; Third Point L.L.C., the hedge fund led by the billionaire Daniel Loeb, has taken a stake in Dow Chemical Co. and called for a spin-off of its petrochemicals business to improve profitability. Third Point&#8217;s stake in Dow is [&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-40200","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40200","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=40200"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40200\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40203,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40200\/revisions\/40203"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}