{"id":67896,"date":"2019-02-08T00:52:51","date_gmt":"2019-02-08T05:52:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=67896"},"modified":"2019-02-08T00:52:51","modified_gmt":"2019-02-08T05:52:51","slug":"appaloosa-steps-up-pressure-on-allergan-to-split-chairman-ceo-roles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/02\/2019\/appaloosa-steps-up-pressure-on-allergan-to-split-chairman-ceo-roles.html","title":{"rendered":"Appaloosa Steps Up Pressure on Allergan to Split Chairman, CEO Roles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n(Reuters) Hedge fund Appaloosa LP on Tuesday urged pharmaceutical company Allergan Plc to split its chairman and chief executive roles, arguing that an independent chair could help CEO Brent Saunders boost the company\u2019s sagging share price. Appaloosa\u2019s billionaire founder David Tepper turned up the heat on the Botox maker one week after the company delivered disappointing earnings and shelved plans to sell its women\u2019s health business, which it had put on the block in May.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-allergan-appaloosa\/appaloosa-steps-up-pressure-on-allergan-to-split-chairman-ceo-roles-idUSKCN1PU1ND\">To read this article:<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Reuters) Hedge fund Appaloosa LP on Tuesday urged pharmaceutical company Allergan Plc to split its chairman and chief executive roles, arguing that an independent chair could help CEO Brent Saunders boost the company\u2019s sagging share price. Appaloosa\u2019s billionaire founder David [&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-67896","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67896","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=67896"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67896\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67897,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67896\/revisions\/67897"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}