{"id":58579,"date":"2017-06-20T08:56:09","date_gmt":"2017-06-20T12:56:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=58579"},"modified":"2017-06-20T08:45:38","modified_gmt":"2017-06-20T12:45:38","slug":"billionaire-investor-paulson-joins-valeant-board-shares-jump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/06\/2017\/billionaire-investor-paulson-joins-valeant-board-shares-jump.html","title":{"rendered":"Billionaire Investor Paulson Joins Valeant Board, Shares Jump"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n(Reuters) Billionaire investor John Paulson, whose hedge fund firm is the biggest owner of Valeant Pharmaceuticals International Inc (VRX.TO)(VRX.N) shares, on Monday joined the ailing drug company&#8217;s board as it restructures to repay debt. Investors appeared to see Paulson&#8217;s becoming a director as a vote of confidence in Valeant, sending its U.S.-listed shares up 5.1. percent at $13.29.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-valeant-pharm-in-board-idUSKBN19A1DC\">To read this article:<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Reuters) Billionaire investor John Paulson, whose hedge fund firm is the biggest owner of Valeant Pharmaceuticals International Inc (VRX.TO)(VRX.N) shares, on Monday joined the ailing drug company&#8217;s board as it restructures to repay debt. Investors appeared to see Paulson&#8217;s becoming [&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-58579","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58579","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=58579"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58579\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58580,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58579\/revisions\/58580"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}