{"id":43107,"date":"2014-07-17T08:25:33","date_gmt":"2014-07-17T12:25:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=43107"},"modified":"2014-07-17T08:25:33","modified_gmt":"2014-07-17T12:25:33","slug":"paulson-hedge-fund-backs-potential-sprint-t-mobile-merger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/07\/2014\/paulson-hedge-fund-backs-potential-sprint-t-mobile-merger.html","title":{"rendered":"Paulson Hedge Fund Backs Potential Sprint, T-Mobile Merger"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WSJ &#8211; Sprint Corp. S +0.37% and T-Mobile TMUS +0.44% US Inc. haven&#8217;t yet announced their plans to merge but they already have an influential shareholder on board: billionaire hedge fund manager John Paulson.<\/p>\n<p>Paulson &amp; Co. played a prominent role in last year&#8217;s round of telecom deals, helping apply pressure that led to higher prices both in T-Mobile&#8217;s acquisition of MetroPCS Communications Inc. and SoftBank Corp.&#8217;s 9984.TO -0.98% acquisition of Sprint Corp.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/articles\/paulson-hedge-fund-lends-support-to-potential-sprint-t-mobile-merger-1405451860\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Read Complete Article<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WSJ &#8211; Sprint Corp. S +0.37% and T-Mobile TMUS +0.44% US Inc. haven&#8217;t yet announced their plans to merge but they already have an influential shareholder on board: billionaire hedge fund manager John Paulson. Paulson &amp; Co. played a prominent [&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-43107","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43107","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=43107"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43107\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43108,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43107\/revisions\/43108"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}