{"id":46470,"date":"2015-02-16T08:21:47","date_gmt":"2015-02-16T13:21:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=46470"},"modified":"2015-02-16T08:21:47","modified_gmt":"2015-02-16T13:21:47","slug":"will-gm-give-into-this-8-billion-hedge-fund-cash-grab","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/02\/2015\/will-gm-give-into-this-8-billion-hedge-fund-cash-grab.html","title":{"rendered":"Will GM Give Into This $8 Billion Hedge Fund Cash Grab?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Motley Fool &#8211; Will a quick-profit scheme by a group of hedge funds end up costing General Motors $8 billion? It could end up costing more than that. The hedge funds&#8217; effort to force GM to spend $8 billion of its $25.2 billion cash reserve on a share buyback could hurt GM&#8217;s hard-won investment-grade credit rating, according to a Wall Street Journal report.<\/p>\n<p>That could drive GM&#8217;s financing costs up by hundreds of millions of dollars a year, making this an even more expensive boondoggle than it appears.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fool.com\/investing\/general\/2015\/02\/15\/will-gm-give-into-this-8-billion-hedge-fund-cash-g.aspx\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Read Complete Article<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Motley Fool &#8211; Will a quick-profit scheme by a group of hedge funds end up costing General Motors $8 billion? It could end up costing more than that. The hedge funds&#8217; effort to force GM to spend $8 billion of [&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-46470","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46470","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=46470"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46470\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46471,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46470\/revisions\/46471"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}