{"id":66930,"date":"2018-12-05T01:31:40","date_gmt":"2018-12-05T06:31:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=66930"},"modified":"2018-12-05T01:31:40","modified_gmt":"2018-12-05T06:31:40","slug":"the-hedge-fund-barbarians-are-targeting-european-telecoms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/12\/2018\/the-hedge-fund-barbarians-are-targeting-european-telecoms.html","title":{"rendered":"The Hedge Fund Barbarians Are Targeting European Telecoms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(Bloomberg) Telecommunications companies have long been the unglamorous workhorses of the stock market, favored by investors who appreciate the generous dividends thrown off by their utility-like business and, until recently, the relative lack of volatility in their share prices. But as the industry\u2019s stocks have suffered\u2014the index of big European telcos is down by a quarter since 2015\u2014two U.S.-based hedge funds have been buying into the phone companies and advocating a radical solution: Stop running phone networks.<\/p>\n<p>To read this article:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Bloomberg) Telecommunications companies have long been the unglamorous workhorses of the stock market, favored by investors who appreciate the generous dividends thrown off by their utility-like business and, until recently, the relative lack of volatility in their share prices. But [&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-66930","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66930","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=66930"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66930\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66931,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66930\/revisions\/66931"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}