{"id":50923,"date":"2015-12-10T09:54:22","date_gmt":"2015-12-10T14:54:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=50923"},"modified":"2015-12-10T09:55:09","modified_gmt":"2015-12-10T14:55:09","slug":"ackman-plays-big-role-in-laying-out-canadian-pacific-rail-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/12\/2015\/ackman-plays-big-role-in-laying-out-canadian-pacific-rail-deal.html","title":{"rendered":"Ackman plays big role in laying out Canadian Pacific rail deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"yui_3_18_1_1_1449759090336_1056\">BOSTON (Reuters) &#8211; Billionaire investor William Ackman is playing an outsized role in railway Canadian Pacific&#8217;s &lt;CP.TO&gt; plan to buy rival Norfolk Southern &lt;NSC.N&gt;, underscoring his efforts to bring home a deal to salvage an otherwise awful 2015 for the hedge fund manager.<\/p>\n<p id=\"yui_3_18_1_1_1449759090336_1082\">Ackman sits on Canadian Pacific&#8217;s board of directors and his $14.8 billion Pershing Square Capital Management owns 9.1 percent of the company. Ackman was the last to speak on a conference call on Tuesday that spelled out an enhanced bid for Norfolk Southern.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/ackman-plays-big-role-laying-canadian-pacific-rail-131204574--sector.html;_ylt=AwrC0CaiyGhW8EgAKBXQtDMD;_ylu=X3oDMTByMHZ0NG9yBGNvbG8DYmYxBHBvcwM3BHZ0aWQDBHNlYwNzcg--\">Click here<\/a> to read the entire article!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BOSTON (Reuters) &#8211; Billionaire investor William Ackman is playing an outsized role in railway Canadian Pacific&#8217;s &lt;CP.TO&gt; plan to buy rival Norfolk Southern &lt;NSC.N&gt;, underscoring his efforts to bring home a deal to salvage an otherwise awful 2015 for the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50923","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hedgeco-news","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50923","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\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50923"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50923\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50925,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50923\/revisions\/50925"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}