{"id":56833,"date":"2017-02-28T07:16:50","date_gmt":"2017-02-28T12:16:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=56833"},"modified":"2017-02-28T07:16:50","modified_gmt":"2017-02-28T12:16:50","slug":"distressed-investing-guru-wilbur-ross-confirmed-as-u-s-commerce-secretary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/02\/2017\/distressed-investing-guru-wilbur-ross-confirmed-as-u-s-commerce-secretary.html","title":{"rendered":"Distressed Investing Guru Wilbur Ross Confirmed As U.S. Commerce Secretary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(Reuters) &#8211; Billionaire investor Wilbur Ross easily won confirmation as U.S. commerce secretary on Monday, clearing President Donald Trump&#8217;s top trade official to start work on renegotiating trade relationships with China and Mexico.<\/p>\n<p>The U.S. Senate voted 72-27 to confirm the 79-year-old corporate turnaround expert&#8217;s nomination, with strong support from Democrats.<\/p>\n<p>To read the entire article, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.finalternatives.com\/node\/34689\">click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Reuters) &#8211; Billionaire investor Wilbur Ross easily won confirmation as U.S. commerce secretary on Monday, clearing President Donald Trump&#8217;s top trade official to start work on renegotiating trade relationships with China and Mexico. The U.S. Senate voted 72-27 to confirm [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56833","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56833","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\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56833"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56833\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56834,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56833\/revisions\/56834"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}