{"id":44568,"date":"2014-10-16T07:59:37","date_gmt":"2014-10-16T11:59:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=44568"},"modified":"2014-10-16T07:59:37","modified_gmt":"2014-10-16T11:59:37","slug":"shire-gut-punch-bruises-hedge-funds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/10\/2014\/shire-gut-punch-bruises-hedge-funds.html","title":{"rendered":"Shire Gut Punch Bruises Hedge Funds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"color: #333333;\">WSJ &#8211; A rough year for hedge funds turned more perilous as investors sold broad swaths of stock, including shares tied to pending takeover deals, after a closely watched merger hit the skids.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #333333;\">Hedge funds have spent much of the past year and a half playing catch-up to the overall market. Adding to their troubles, the past few weeks have seen several of their most popular investments, including bets on oil-services and technology shares, turn sour. The Dow Jones Industrial Average finished Wednesday down 173.45 points, or 1.1%; earlier in the day, the index had declined as much as 460 points.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #333333;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/articles\/hedge-funds-take-hit-on-abbvies-rethink-of-shire-acquisition-1413394297\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Read Complete Article<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WSJ &#8211; A rough year for hedge funds turned more perilous as investors sold broad swaths of stock, including shares tied to pending takeover deals, after a closely watched merger hit the skids. Hedge funds have spent much of the [&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-44568","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44568","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=44568"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44568\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44571,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44568\/revisions\/44571"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}