{"id":41850,"date":"2014-04-30T07:06:05","date_gmt":"2014-04-30T11:06:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=41850"},"modified":"2014-04-30T07:06:05","modified_gmt":"2014-04-30T11:06:05","slug":"royal-mail-float-government-admits-hedge-funds-were-favoured","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/04\/2014\/royal-mail-float-government-admits-hedge-funds-were-favoured.html","title":{"rendered":"Royal Mail float: Government admits hedge funds were favoured"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Evening Standard &#8211; Hedge funds were among the \u201cpriority investors\u201d sold hundreds of millions of pounds of shares in the Royal Mail&#8217;s controversial flotation, officials have confirmed.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<p>The Business Secretary, Vince Cable, has repeatedly insisted that the handful of key investors offered Royal Mail shares on preferential terms were long-term institutional investors.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.standard.co.uk\/business\/business-news\/royal-mail-float-government-admits-hedge-funds-were-favoured-9304080.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Read Complete Article<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Evening Standard &#8211; Hedge funds were among the \u201cpriority investors\u201d sold hundreds of millions of pounds of shares in the Royal Mail&#8217;s controversial flotation, officials have confirmed. The Business Secretary, Vince Cable, has repeatedly insisted that the handful of key [&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-41850","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41850","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=41850"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41850\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41851,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41850\/revisions\/41851"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}