{"id":56715,"date":"2017-02-22T08:37:29","date_gmt":"2017-02-22T13:37:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=56715"},"modified":"2017-02-22T08:37:29","modified_gmt":"2017-02-22T13:37:29","slug":"icahn-buys-bristol-myers-shares-adding-to-activist-pressure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/02\/2017\/icahn-buys-bristol-myers-shares-adding-to-activist-pressure.html","title":{"rendered":"Icahn Buys Bristol-Myers Shares, Adding to Activist Pressure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n(Reuters) Billionaire investor Carl Icahn has taken a stake in Bristol-Myers Squibb Co and sees the drugmaker as a possible takeover target, according to a report published on Tuesday that sent the company&#8217;s shares from a loss to more than 2 percent higher. Earlier on Tuesday, Bristol-Myers said it added three directors to its board, a move supported by JANA Partners LLC, an activist investor building a stake in the company&#8217;s stock.<\/p>\n<p>Bristol shares were down nearly 2 percent for much of the day before jumping as high as $57.21 after the Wall Street Journal said Icahn has built a large stake. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-bristol-myers-jana-idUSKBN1601LF\">To read this article:<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Reuters) Billionaire investor Carl Icahn has taken a stake in Bristol-Myers Squibb Co and sees the drugmaker as a possible takeover target, according to a report published on Tuesday that sent the company&#8217;s shares from a loss to more than [&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-56715","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56715","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=56715"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56715\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56716,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56715\/revisions\/56716"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}