{"id":62539,"date":"2018-02-28T00:02:29","date_gmt":"2018-02-28T05:02:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=62539"},"modified":"2018-03-02T00:43:44","modified_gmt":"2018-03-02T05:43:44","slug":"hedge-funds-expect-counter-bid-for-sky-after-comcast-offer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/02\/2018\/hedge-funds-expect-counter-bid-for-sky-after-comcast-offer.html","title":{"rendered":"Hedge Funds Expect Counter Bid for Sky After Comcast Offer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(Reuters) Two hedge funds that have criticised Twenty-First Century Fox\u2019s takeover of Britain\u2019s Sky have said Comcast Corp\u2019s rival $31 billion offer for the broadcaster is likely to trigger a higher counter-bid for the company.   Comcast on Tuesday offered 12.50 pounds-a-share for the pay-television operator, seeking to disrupt a deal struck in December 2016 by Rupert Murdoch\u2019s Fox to acquire the 61 percent of Sky that it does not already own for 10.75 pounds-a-share.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/uk-sky-m-a-comcast-investors\/hedge-funds-expect-counter-bid-for-sky-after-comcast-offer-idUSKCN1GB1EU\">To read this article:<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Reuters) Two hedge funds that have criticised Twenty-First Century Fox\u2019s takeover of Britain\u2019s Sky have said Comcast Corp\u2019s rival $31 billion offer for the broadcaster is likely to trigger a higher counter-bid for the company. Comcast on Tuesday offered 12.50 [&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-62539","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62539","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=62539"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62539\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62540,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62539\/revisions\/62540"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}