{"id":52021,"date":"2016-03-30T10:10:56","date_gmt":"2016-03-30T14:10:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=52021"},"modified":"2016-03-30T10:10:56","modified_gmt":"2016-03-30T14:10:56","slug":"fund-giants-winning-bet-against-william-hill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/03\/2016\/fund-giants-winning-bet-against-william-hill.html","title":{"rendered":"Fund Giant&#8217;s Winning Bet Against William Hill"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n(The Telegraph) It is not just the punters that flocked to the Cheltenham Festival that have profited at William Hill\u2019s expense. One of the City\u2019s biggest hedge funds is also in line for windfall thanks to the beleaguered bookmaker, after making a canny bet against the gambling company\u2019s shares.<\/p>\n<p>GLG Partners is shorting William Hill, meaning the hedge fund stands to benefit from the 11pc plunge in the bookie\u2019s stock last Wednesday \u2013 its biggest one-day fall in more than seven years &#8211; in the wake of a shock profit warning.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/business\/2016\/03\/25\/hedge-fund-giants-winning-bet-against-william-hill\/\">To read this article:<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(The Telegraph) It is not just the punters that flocked to the Cheltenham Festival that have profited at William Hill\u2019s expense. One of the City\u2019s biggest hedge funds is also in line for windfall thanks to the beleaguered bookmaker, after [&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-52021","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52021","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=52021"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52021\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52022,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52021\/revisions\/52022"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}