{"id":62241,"date":"2018-02-12T07:01:26","date_gmt":"2018-02-12T12:01:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=62241"},"modified":"2018-02-12T07:01:26","modified_gmt":"2018-02-12T12:01:26","slug":"ackmans-foe-herbalife-lobbies-congress-to-curb-short-sellers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/02\/2018\/ackmans-foe-herbalife-lobbies-congress-to-curb-short-sellers.html","title":{"rendered":"Ackman&#8217;s Foe Herbalife Lobbies Congress to Curb Short-Sellers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(Fox Business) Shares of Herbalife are surging this year, but company executives are taking no chances against their old nemesis, hedge fund manager Bill Ackman, as they press legislation in Congress to make life much more difficult for investors who try to make money betting on a stock\u2019s collapse, FOX Business Network has learned&#8230;.Herbalife is part of a behind-the-scenes lobbying effort in Congress to pass legislation that would force short-sellers \u2013 or investors who bet that stocks will fall \u2013 to face similar disclosure requirements as those investors who are \u201clong,\u201d or simply buy a stock and hold it&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxbusiness.com\/markets\/2018\/02\/08\/ackmans-foe-herbalife-lobbies-congress-to-curb-short-sellers.html\">To read this article:<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Fox Business) Shares of Herbalife are surging this year, but company executives are taking no chances against their old nemesis, hedge fund manager Bill Ackman, as they press legislation in Congress to make life much more difficult for investors who [&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-62241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62241","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=62241"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62241\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62242,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62241\/revisions\/62242"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}