{"id":59503,"date":"2017-08-16T09:21:27","date_gmt":"2017-08-16T13:21:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=59503"},"modified":"2017-08-16T09:21:27","modified_gmt":"2017-08-16T13:21:27","slug":"hedge-fund-elliott-raises-stake-in-bhp-in-push-for-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/08\/2017\/hedge-fund-elliott-raises-stake-in-bhp-in-push-for-change.html","title":{"rendered":"Hedge Fund Elliott Raises Stake in BHP in Push For Change"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(Reuters) Hedge fund Elliott Management has raised its stake in BHP Billiton (BHP.AX) (BLT.L) to 5 percent, bolstering its position to agitate for change at the top global miner, but signaled its support for the incoming chairman.   New York-based Elliott launched its effort in April, at which point it held a 4.1 percent &#8220;economic interest&#8221; in BHP&#8217;s UK-listed shares, calling for the company to quit all or part of its petroleum business, boost returns and ditch its dual listing.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-bhp-billiton-elliott-idUSKCN1AV2JV?il=0\">To read this article:<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Reuters) Hedge fund Elliott Management has raised its stake in BHP Billiton (BHP.AX) (BLT.L) to 5 percent, bolstering its position to agitate for change at the top global miner, but signaled its support for the incoming chairman. New York-based Elliott [&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-59503","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59503","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=59503"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59503\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59504,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59503\/revisions\/59504"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}