{"id":65223,"date":"2018-08-13T00:09:04","date_gmt":"2018-08-13T04:09:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=65223"},"modified":"2018-08-15T01:17:51","modified_gmt":"2018-08-15T05:17:51","slug":"elliott-takes-stake-in-nielsen-urges-sale-shares-jump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/08\/2018\/elliott-takes-stake-in-nielsen-urges-sale-shares-jump.html","title":{"rendered":"Elliott takes stake in Nielsen, urges sale; shares jump"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(Reuters) &#8211; Elliott Management, one of the world\u2019s biggest hedge funds, disclosed that it held a large stake in information services company Nielsen Holdings (NLSN.N) and urged it to considering selling itself. News of Elliott\u2019s investment pushed Nielsen\u2019s stock price up more than 9 percent in early trading. Since January, the stock price has tumbled 40 percent, including a 25 percent drop in one day last month when the company posted a sharp drop in second-quarter net income. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-nielsen-holdings-m-a-elliott\/elliott-takes-stake-in-nielsen-urges-sale-shares-jump-idUSKBN1KY1EA\">To read this article:<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Reuters) &#8211; Elliott Management, one of the world\u2019s biggest hedge funds, disclosed that it held a large stake in information services company Nielsen Holdings (NLSN.N) and urged it to considering selling itself. News of Elliott\u2019s investment pushed Nielsen\u2019s stock price [&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-65223","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65223","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=65223"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65223\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65224,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65223\/revisions\/65224"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}