{"id":42809,"date":"2014-06-30T07:07:43","date_gmt":"2014-06-30T11:07:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=42809"},"modified":"2014-06-30T07:07:43","modified_gmt":"2014-06-30T11:07:43","slug":"texas-lawmaker-warns-against-hedge-funds-flipping-energy-future-unit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/06\/2014\/texas-lawmaker-warns-against-hedge-funds-flipping-energy-future-unit.html","title":{"rendered":"Texas lawmaker warns against hedge funds &#8216;flipping&#8217; Energy Future unit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Reuters &#8211; A powerful Texas state senator warned against a takeover by hedge funds of the power distribution unit of bankrupt Energy Future Holdings and said the state would prefer an owner with a long-term view.<\/p>\n<p>Senator Troy Fraser told Reuters on Friday [June 27] that Texas prefers that the new owner of the power distribution unit, Oncor, invest cash in the business, and would be concerned about any deal that increases debt levels.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hedgeworld.com\/open_news\/read_newsletter_aa.cgi?section=dail&amp;story=dail23606.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Read Complete Article<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reuters &#8211; A powerful Texas state senator warned against a takeover by hedge funds of the power distribution unit of bankrupt Energy Future Holdings and said the state would prefer an owner with a long-term view. Senator Troy Fraser told [&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-42809","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42809","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=42809"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42809\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42810,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42809\/revisions\/42810"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}