{"id":54132,"date":"2016-08-31T08:19:45","date_gmt":"2016-08-31T12:19:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=54132"},"modified":"2016-08-31T08:19:45","modified_gmt":"2016-08-31T12:19:45","slug":"carl-icahn-backs-bill-ackman-into-a-corner-in-herbalife-battle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/08\/2016\/carl-icahn-backs-bill-ackman-into-a-corner-in-herbalife-battle.html","title":{"rendered":"Carl Icahn backs Bill Ackman into a corner in Herbalife battle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(New York Post) Icahn said Ackman, whose Pershing Square hedge fund has a $1 billion dollar short bet on Herbalife, should realize he\u2019s \u201cboxed in,\u201d with little room to maneuver. Nearly a third of the nutritional supplement company\u2019s shares are held short, and nearly 25 percent are closely held. With so few shares available on the market, Ackman could find himself in the proverbial \u201cshort squeeze\u201d should the share price rapidly rise, Icahn told CNBC&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/nypost.com\/2016\/08\/30\/carl-icahn-backs-bill-ackman-into-a-corner-in-herbalife-battle\/\">To read this article:<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(New York Post) Icahn said Ackman, whose Pershing Square hedge fund has a $1 billion dollar short bet on Herbalife, should realize he\u2019s \u201cboxed in,\u201d with little room to maneuver. Nearly a third of the nutritional supplement company\u2019s shares are [&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-54132","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54132","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=54132"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54132\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54133,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54132\/revisions\/54133"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}