{"id":63485,"date":"2018-05-02T00:42:51","date_gmt":"2018-05-02T04:42:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=63485"},"modified":"2018-05-02T00:52:25","modified_gmt":"2018-05-02T04:52:25","slug":"sainsburys-move-for-asda-sees-some-hedge-funds-caught-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/05\/2018\/sainsburys-move-for-asda-sees-some-hedge-funds-caught-out.html","title":{"rendered":"Sainsbury&#8217;s Move for Asda Sees Some Hedge Funds Caught Out"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n(Reuters) A popular hedge fund bet on a fall in Sainsbury\u2019s (SBRY.L) shares came unstuck on Monday after the supermarket group announced plans to merge with Walmart-owned WMT.L rival Asda. The deal, which would see the combined group leapfrog Tesco (TSCO.L) to become Britain\u2019s biggest food.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/uk.reuters.com\/article\/uk-sainsbury-s-walmart-m-a-hedgefunds\/sainsburys-move-for-asda-sees-some-hedge-funds-caught-out-idUKKBN1I117L\">To read this article:<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Reuters) A popular hedge fund bet on a fall in Sainsbury\u2019s (SBRY.L) shares came unstuck on Monday after the supermarket group announced plans to merge with Walmart-owned WMT.L rival Asda. The deal, which would see the combined group leapfrog Tesco [&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-63485","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63485","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=63485"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63485\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63495,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63485\/revisions\/63495"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}