{"id":47374,"date":"2015-04-09T05:38:27","date_gmt":"2015-04-09T09:38:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=47374"},"modified":"2015-04-09T07:38:49","modified_gmt":"2015-04-09T11:38:49","slug":"hedge-funds-bet-big-on-petsmart-price-bump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/04\/2015\/hedge-funds-bet-big-on-petsmart-price-bump.html","title":{"rendered":"Hedge Funds Bet Big on PetSmart Price Bump"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WSJ &#8211; A hedge-fund investing strategy aimed at squeezing more money from corporate takeovers has its biggest test yet: PetSmart Inc.<\/p>\n<p>The specialty retailer\u2019s recent $8.25 billion buyout has drawn big bets from several well-known hedge funds, which bought shares on the brink of the deal\u2019s closing in March and are laying the groundwork for a court battle over the $83-a-share buyout price, according to filings and people familiar with the matter.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.wsj.com\/moneybeat\/2015\/04\/07\/hedge-funds-bet-big-on-petsmart-price-bump\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Read Complete Article<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WSJ &#8211; A hedge-fund investing strategy aimed at squeezing more money from corporate takeovers has its biggest test yet: PetSmart Inc. The specialty retailer\u2019s recent $8.25 billion buyout has drawn big bets from several well-known hedge funds, which bought shares [&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-47374","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47374","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=47374"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47374\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47376,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47374\/revisions\/47376"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}