{"id":42233,"date":"2014-05-22T07:30:17","date_gmt":"2014-05-22T11:30:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=42233"},"modified":"2014-05-22T07:30:17","modified_gmt":"2014-05-22T11:30:17","slug":"political-interference-clips-hedge-funds-desires-to-trade-on-mega-mergers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/05\/2014\/political-interference-clips-hedge-funds-desires-to-trade-on-mega-mergers.html","title":{"rendered":"Political Interference Clips Hedge Funds&#8217; Desires to Trade on Mega Mergers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WSJ &#8211; A wave of megadeal activity in Europe isn&#8217;t providing the trading opportunities many hedge funds had hoped for.<\/p>\n<p>U.S. drug firm Pfizer Inc&#8217;s $120 billion attempt to buy U.K. rival AstraZeneca and General Electric&#8217;s proposed $17 billion purchase of French group Alstom&#8217;s power business are seen by many investors as kicking off a long-awaited boom in M&amp;A in Europe.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/news\/articles\/SB10001424052702303749904579577430886571664?mg=reno64-wsj&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fonline.wsj.com%2Farticle%2FSB10001424052702303749904579577430886571664.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Read Complete Article<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WSJ &#8211; A wave of megadeal activity in Europe isn&#8217;t providing the trading opportunities many hedge funds had hoped for. U.S. drug firm Pfizer Inc&#8217;s $120 billion attempt to buy U.K. rival AstraZeneca and General Electric&#8217;s proposed $17 billion purchase [&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-42233","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42233","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=42233"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42233\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42234,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42233\/revisions\/42234"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}