{"id":59586,"date":"2017-08-22T08:55:15","date_gmt":"2017-08-22T12:55:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=59586"},"modified":"2017-08-22T08:55:15","modified_gmt":"2017-08-22T12:55:15","slug":"herbalife-squeezes-ackman-short-with-new-buyback-icahn-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/08\/2017\/herbalife-squeezes-ackman-short-with-new-buyback-icahn-deal.html","title":{"rendered":"Herbalife Squeezes Ackman Short With New Buyback, Icahn Deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(Bloomberg) The battle between billionaire investors Carl Icahn and Bill Ackman over the future of Herbalife Ltd. just got turned up a notch.   The nutritional-supplements company disclosed a barrage of news Monday that sent its stock surging, including now-dead talks to go private, a new share buyback plan and a pact with its biggest investor, Icahn. The statement dealt a quick blow to Ackman and others that have bet against Herbalife\u2019s stock, while handing a paper profit to Icahn.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2017-08-21\/herbalife-ends-talks-to-go-private-reaches-pact-with-icahn\">To read this article:<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Bloomberg) The battle between billionaire investors Carl Icahn and Bill Ackman over the future of Herbalife Ltd. just got turned up a notch. The nutritional-supplements company disclosed a barrage of news Monday that sent its stock surging, including now-dead talks [&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-59586","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59586","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=59586"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59586\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59587,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59586\/revisions\/59587"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}