{"id":40217,"date":"2014-01-23T07:16:17","date_gmt":"2014-01-23T12:16:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=40217"},"modified":"2014-01-23T07:16:17","modified_gmt":"2014-01-23T12:16:17","slug":"hedge-fund-bets-on-t-mobile-takeover","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/01\/2014\/hedge-fund-bets-on-t-mobile-takeover.html","title":{"rendered":"Hedge fund bets on T-Mobile takeover"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kansas City Star &#8211; Third Point LLC, the hedge fund founded by activist investor Dan Loeb, bought a stake in wireless carrier T-Mobile US Inc., betting that the company could be acquired by Sprint Corp. or Dish Network Corp.<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Third Point bought shares at $25 apiece when T-Mobile conducted a secondary offering in November, Loeb said Tuesday in a letter to investors. Third Point was attracted by T-Mobile\u2019s takeover prospects, as well as its improving operating performance and relative valuation compared with peers.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kansascity.com\/2014\/01\/21\/4766304\/hedge-fund-bets-on-t-mobile-takeover.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Read Complete Article<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kansas City Star &#8211; Third Point LLC, the hedge fund founded by activist investor Dan Loeb, bought a stake in wireless carrier T-Mobile US Inc., betting that the company could be acquired by Sprint Corp. or Dish Network Corp. Third [&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-40217","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40217","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=40217"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40217\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40218,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40217\/revisions\/40218"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}