{"id":56561,"date":"2017-02-13T09:16:42","date_gmt":"2017-02-13T14:16:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=56561"},"modified":"2017-02-13T09:16:42","modified_gmt":"2017-02-13T14:16:42","slug":"hedges-back-murdoch-to-prevail-in-sky-takeover-battle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/02\/2017\/hedges-back-murdoch-to-prevail-in-sky-takeover-battle.html","title":{"rendered":"Hedges Back Murdoch to Prevail in Sky Takeover Battle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n(Telegraph) Aggressive US hedge funds have built stakes in Sky worth hundreds of millions of pounds, betting that the Murdoch family will succeed in their bid for full control of the pay-TV giant. In recent days HBK, a fund based in Texas, and Pentwater Capital, of Illinois, have revealed they have built positions worth around \u00a3310m and \u00a3300m respectively based on Friday\u2019s closing share price of \u00a310.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/business\/2017\/02\/11\/hedge-funds-back-murdoch-prevail-sky-takeover-battle\/\">To read this article:<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Telegraph) Aggressive US hedge funds have built stakes in Sky worth hundreds of millions of pounds, betting that the Murdoch family will succeed in their bid for full control of the pay-TV giant. In recent days HBK, a fund based [&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-56561","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56561","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=56561"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56561\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56562,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56561\/revisions\/56562"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}