{"id":47910,"date":"2015-04-28T08:25:31","date_gmt":"2015-04-28T12:25:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=47910"},"modified":"2015-04-28T08:25:31","modified_gmt":"2015-04-28T12:25:31","slug":"merger-surge-tempts-hedge-funds-to-make-a-bet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/04\/2015\/merger-surge-tempts-hedge-funds-to-make-a-bet.html","title":{"rendered":"Merger Surge Tempts Hedge Funds to Make a Bet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WSJ &#8211; Hedge funds that bet on mergers have had scant success in recent years. Now some are pinning their moneymaking hopes on Royal Dutch Shell PLC\u2019s $70 billion planned takeover of BG Group PLC.<\/p>\n<p>The deal was announced earlier this month and leads a surge in European deal activity that hedge funds can place bets on.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/merger-surge-tempts-hedge-funds-to-make-a-bet-1430134205\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Read Complete Article<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WSJ &#8211; Hedge funds that bet on mergers have had scant success in recent years. Now some are pinning their moneymaking hopes on Royal Dutch Shell PLC\u2019s $70 billion planned takeover of BG Group PLC. The deal was announced earlier [&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-47910","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47910","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=47910"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47910\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47913,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47910\/revisions\/47913"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}