{"id":47883,"date":"2015-04-27T04:53:55","date_gmt":"2015-04-27T08:53:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=47883"},"modified":"2015-04-27T04:53:55","modified_gmt":"2015-04-27T08:53:55","slug":"treasury-defends-lloyds-against-possible-hedge-fund-attack-on-tell-sid-share-sale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/04\/2015\/treasury-defends-lloyds-against-possible-hedge-fund-attack-on-tell-sid-share-sale.html","title":{"rendered":"Treasury defends Lloyds against possible hedge fund attack on &#8216;Tell Sid&#8217; share sale"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Telegraph &#8211; The Government is planning a two-stage sale of Lloyds shares this year amid fears that short-sellers would target one of the largest retail offerings in decades at the taxpayer\u2019s expense.<\/p>\n<p>Chancellor George Osborne last week unveiled plans to sell billions of pounds of shares in the bailed-out bank to the public if the Conservatives win next month\u2019s general election. The \u00a34bn retail offering, which Mr Osborne said will \u201cgive many more people a stake in our economy\u201d, is already being scrutinised by City banks amid concerns that the Chancellor\u2019s promise of a 5pc discount could lead hedge funds to disrupt a \u201cTell Sid\u201d-style campaign.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/finance\/11562517\/Treasury-defends-Lloyds-against-possible-hedge-fund-attack-on-Tell-Sid-share-sale.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Read Complete Article<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Telegraph &#8211; The Government is planning a two-stage sale of Lloyds shares this year amid fears that short-sellers would target one of the largest retail offerings in decades at the taxpayer\u2019s expense. Chancellor George Osborne last week unveiled plans to [&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-47883","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47883","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=47883"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47883\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47884,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47883\/revisions\/47884"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}