{"id":55316,"date":"2016-11-18T09:41:05","date_gmt":"2016-11-18T14:41:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=55316"},"modified":"2016-11-18T09:41:05","modified_gmt":"2016-11-18T14:41:05","slug":"bayer-feeds-a-happy-meal-to-the-hedge-funds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/11\/2016\/bayer-feeds-a-happy-meal-to-the-hedge-funds.html","title":{"rendered":"Bayer Feeds a &#8216;Happy Meal&#8217; to the Hedge Funds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(Bloomberg) The post-election rally in pharmaceutical stocks has created an opportunity for drug-makers to raise money. Step forward Bayer AG. The German life sciences group needs to find $19 billion of equity to help fund its all-cash $66 billion takeover of U.S. seeds giant Monsanto Co. This week it found nearly a quarter of that &#8212; and got a decent deal too.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/gadfly\/articles\/2016-11-17\/bayer-feeds-a-happy-meal-to-the-hedge-funds\">To read this article:<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Bloomberg) The post-election rally in pharmaceutical stocks has created an opportunity for drug-makers to raise money. Step forward Bayer AG. The German life sciences group needs to find $19 billion of equity to help fund its all-cash $66 billion takeover [&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-55316","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55316","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=55316"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55316\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55317,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55316\/revisions\/55317"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}