{"id":51779,"date":"2016-03-08T08:49:25","date_gmt":"2016-03-08T13:49:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=51779"},"modified":"2016-03-08T08:49:25","modified_gmt":"2016-03-08T13:49:25","slug":"hedge-funds-juicing-lse-ignore-graveyard-of-failed-offers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/03\/2016\/hedge-funds-juicing-lse-ignore-graveyard-of-failed-offers.html","title":{"rendered":"Hedge Funds Juicing LSE Ignore Graveyard of Failed Offers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(Bloomberg) Traders bidding up the price of London Stock Exchange Group Plc are signaling this acquisition attempt might be different. <\/p>\n<p>Euphoria over a potential bidding war is trumping &#8212; for now at least &#8212; the long list of past failed takeover attempts for the British company. Hedge funds have sent LSE beyond what Deutsche Boerse AG has agreed to pay in a friendly merger under discussion between the two. They\u2019re acting on the possibility that rival suitors &#8212; including U.S. peers Intercontinental Exchange Inc. and CME Group Inc. &#8212; may bid as well.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2016-03-07\/hedge-funds-juicing-lse-shares-ignore-graveyard-of-failed-bids\">To read this article:<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Bloomberg) Traders bidding up the price of London Stock Exchange Group Plc are signaling this acquisition attempt might be different. Euphoria over a potential bidding war is trumping &#8212; for now at least &#8212; the long list of past failed [&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-51779","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51779","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=51779"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51779\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51780,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51779\/revisions\/51780"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}