{"id":45500,"date":"2014-12-17T08:04:19","date_gmt":"2014-12-17T13:04:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=45500"},"modified":"2014-12-17T08:04:19","modified_gmt":"2014-12-17T13:04:19","slug":"no-hedging-possibility-of-staples-merger-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/12\/2014\/no-hedging-possibility-of-staples-merger-now.html","title":{"rendered":"No hedging possibility of Staples merger now"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Boston Globe &#8211; I stopped in at a Staples store over the weekend and saw lots of merchandise offered as doorbuster-style values: a $200 printer available for half price, an office chair discounted from $180 to $99.99, and the steal of the day: a $130 shredder that could be yours for $19.99, after rebates.<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s one thing about the office-supply chain that actually got more expensive last week: shares of Staples Inc. itself. They are up about 12 percent since Thursday, when the activist hedge fund manager Jeff Smith reported that he had accumulated about 5 percent of the Framingham retailer\u2019s stock.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bostonglobe.com\/business\/2014\/12\/16\/hedge-fund-investment-sparks-speculation-staples-merger\/iEzm7rrvqEMRF4EdzS5ToM\/story.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Read Complete Article<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Boston Globe &#8211; I stopped in at a Staples store over the weekend and saw lots of merchandise offered as doorbuster-style values: a $200 printer available for half price, an office chair discounted from $180 to $99.99, and the steal [&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-45500","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45500","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=45500"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45500\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45506,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45500\/revisions\/45506"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}