{"id":46311,"date":"2015-02-05T08:24:40","date_gmt":"2015-02-05T13:24:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=46311"},"modified":"2015-02-05T08:24:40","modified_gmt":"2015-02-05T13:24:40","slug":"hedge-funds-are-bringing-the-1990s-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/02\/2015\/hedge-funds-are-bringing-the-1990s-back.html","title":{"rendered":"Hedge Funds Are Bringing the 1990s Back"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Forbes &#8211; It may be 2015, but hedge funds are revisiting 1990s-era merger ideas like a marriage of Staples\u00a0and Office Depot. Only, instead of reflecting the heady, \u2018stock is toilet paper\u2019 zeitgeist of that decade, the new crop of deals are being floated as a sober-minded way to wrench out cost savings in industries that have been upended by changing technology and consumer habits.<\/p>\n<p>Mergers that would have been seen as empire building are now resurfacing, in large part because of vocal, bottom-line oriented hedge funds, as a way to cope with a bleak outlook, declining profit margins and over-supply.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/antoinegara\/2015\/02\/04\/hedge-funds-are-bringing-the-1990s-back\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Read Complete Article<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Forbes &#8211; It may be 2015, but hedge funds are revisiting 1990s-era merger ideas like a marriage of Staples\u00a0and Office Depot. Only, instead of reflecting the heady, \u2018stock is toilet paper\u2019 zeitgeist of that decade, the new crop of deals [&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-46311","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46311","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=46311"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46311\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46313,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46311\/revisions\/46313"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}