{"id":60805,"date":"2017-11-08T09:09:02","date_gmt":"2017-11-08T14:09:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=60805"},"modified":"2017-11-08T09:09:02","modified_gmt":"2017-11-08T14:09:02","slug":"sky-investor-crispin-odey-says-he-now-opposes-fox-takeover","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/11\/2017\/sky-investor-crispin-odey-says-he-now-opposes-fox-takeover.html","title":{"rendered":"Sky Investor Crispin Odey Says He Now Opposes Fox Takeover"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(Reuters) Veteran hedge fund manager Crispin Odey now opposes Twenty-First Century Fox\u2019s (FOXA.O) 11.7 billion pound ($15.4 billion) bid to take control of British pay-TV broadcaster Sky (SKYB.L) in a move that could raise further doubts about the deal. Odey, whose firm is Sky\u2019s 17th biggest investor with a 0.9 percent stake, according to Thomson Reuters data, believes that Fox\u2019s 10.75 pound-a-share bid \u201cstarts to look like it\u2019s not a very good price\u201d for the broadcaster.   \u201cI\u2019d vote against the deal,\u201d Odey told Reuters, when asked how he would vote on the offer. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-sky-plc-m-a-fox-odey\/sky-investor-crispin-odey-says-he-now-opposes-fox-takeover-idUSKBN1D71RT\">To read this article:<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Reuters) Veteran hedge fund manager Crispin Odey now opposes Twenty-First Century Fox\u2019s (FOXA.O) 11.7 billion pound ($15.4 billion) bid to take control of British pay-TV broadcaster Sky (SKYB.L) in a move that could raise further doubts about the deal. Odey, [&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-60805","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60805","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=60805"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60805\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60806,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60805\/revisions\/60806"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}