{"id":68364,"date":"2019-03-13T00:01:19","date_gmt":"2019-03-13T04:01:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=68364"},"modified":"2019-03-12T22:06:38","modified_gmt":"2019-03-13T02:06:38","slug":"hedge-funds-manipulating-74b-pharma-deal-starboard-ceo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/03\/2019\/hedge-funds-manipulating-74b-pharma-deal-starboard-ceo.html","title":{"rendered":"Hedge Funds Manipulating $74b Pharma Deal: Starboard CEO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n(New York Post) An activist investor is probing whether hedge funds are using a controversial stock-trading tactic to tip the vote in favor of pharma giant Bristol-Myers Squibb\u2019s $74 billion deal to buy rival Celgene, The Post has learned. Starboard Value \u2014 whose boss Jeff Smith has blasted the merger as too expensive for Bristol-Myers shareholders \u2014 has launched a books-and-records request, partly to determine whether an upcoming shareholder vote on the cash-and-stock merger could be swayed by so-called \u201cempty voting,\u201d sources told The Post.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2019\/03\/11\/investor-thinks-hedge-funds-are-influencing-74b-pharma-deal\/\">To read this article:<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(New York Post) An activist investor is probing whether hedge funds are using a controversial stock-trading tactic to tip the vote in favor of pharma giant Bristol-Myers Squibb\u2019s $74 billion deal to buy rival Celgene, The Post has learned. Starboard [&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-68364","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68364","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=68364"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68364\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68365,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68364\/revisions\/68365"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}