{"id":47887,"date":"2015-04-27T04:56:42","date_gmt":"2015-04-27T08:56:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=47887"},"modified":"2015-04-27T04:56:42","modified_gmt":"2015-04-27T08:56:42","slug":"big-pharma-comes-under-attack-from-a-new-hedge-fund-strategy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/04\/2015\/big-pharma-comes-under-attack-from-a-new-hedge-fund-strategy.html","title":{"rendered":"Big Pharma Comes Under Attack From a New Hedge Fund Strategy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MotleyFool &#8211; Forget retail short-sellers and angry message board posters, Big Pharma has a much bigger concern on the horizon: hedge funds.<\/p>\n<p>I know what you&#8217;re probably thinking, &#8220;Haven&#8217;t various hedge funds already been betting against Big Pharma stocks from time to time?&#8221; The answer is yes. The primary method of discrediting a pharmaceutical company for decades has been to focus on increased competition, weaker earnings, pipeline problems, or any number of fundamental or technical metrics. However, one hedge fund has a completely new strategy meant to chop down Big Pharma at its knees and potentially drive down stock prices for their own benefit.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fool.com\/investing\/general\/2015\/04\/26\/big-pharma-comes-under-attack-from-a-new-hedge-fun.aspx\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Read Complete Article<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MotleyFool &#8211; Forget retail short-sellers and angry message board posters, Big Pharma has a much bigger concern on the horizon: hedge funds. I know what you&#8217;re probably thinking, &#8220;Haven&#8217;t various hedge funds already been betting against Big Pharma stocks from [&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-47887","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47887","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=47887"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47887\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47889,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47887\/revisions\/47889"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47887"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47887"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47887"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}