{"id":51220,"date":"2016-01-11T04:40:22","date_gmt":"2016-01-11T09:40:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=51220"},"modified":"2016-01-11T04:40:22","modified_gmt":"2016-01-11T09:40:22","slug":"hedge-funds-lose-millions-as-argos-owners-shares-rise-41-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/01\/2016\/hedge-funds-lose-millions-as-argos-owners-shares-rise-41-2.html","title":{"rendered":"Hedge Funds Lose Millions As Argos Owner&#8217;s Shares Rise 41%"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(The Guardian) A collection of hedge funds have lost more than \u00a330m in a single afternoon after shares in Home Retail Group, the owner of Argos and Homebase, rose on the news that Sainsbury\u2019s had made a takeover approach. Hedge funds have bet heavily against Home Retail by shorting the shares, gambling that Argos will come under pressure from Amazon and fierce competition on the high street.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2016\/jan\/05\/hedge-funds-lose-millions-argos-homebase-sainsburys\">To read this article:<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(The Guardian) A collection of hedge funds have lost more than \u00a330m in a single afternoon after shares in Home Retail Group, the owner of Argos and Homebase, rose on the news that Sainsbury\u2019s had made a takeover approach. Hedge [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51220","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51220","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\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51220"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51220\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51221,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51220\/revisions\/51221"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}