{"id":58910,"date":"2017-07-12T08:22:47","date_gmt":"2017-07-12T12:22:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=58910"},"modified":"2017-07-12T08:22:47","modified_gmt":"2017-07-12T12:22:47","slug":"elliott-hedge-fund-seeks-to-challenge-buffetts-bid-for-energy-company","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/07\/2017\/elliott-hedge-fund-seeks-to-challenge-buffetts-bid-for-energy-company.html","title":{"rendered":"Elliott Hedge Fund Seeks to Challenge Buffett\u2019s Bid for Energy Company"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(New York Times) The hedge fund Elliott Management is hoping to block Warren E. Buffett\u2019s $9 billion takeover bid for Energy Future Holdings, the bankrupt Texas power giant, by working on an even higher offer.<\/p>\n<p>Elliott, the biggest creditor to Energy Future, on Monday published correspondence with the utility operator that included descriptions of an alternative takeover bid that it was working on, which carried a price of about $9.3 billion.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2017\/07\/10\/business\/dealbook\/warren-buffett-elliott-management-energy-future-oncor.html\">To read this article:<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(New York Times) The hedge fund Elliott Management is hoping to block Warren E. Buffett\u2019s $9 billion takeover bid for Energy Future Holdings, the bankrupt Texas power giant, by working on an even higher offer. Elliott, the biggest creditor to [&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-58910","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58910","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=58910"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58910\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58911,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58910\/revisions\/58911"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}