{"id":69150,"date":"2019-05-06T02:18:06","date_gmt":"2019-05-06T06:18:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=69150"},"modified":"2019-05-08T02:12:00","modified_gmt":"2019-05-08T06:12:00","slug":"hedge-funds-target-centene-may-oppose-wellcare-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/05\/2019\/hedge-funds-target-centene-may-oppose-wellcare-deal.html","title":{"rendered":"Hedge funds target Centene, may oppose WellCare deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(Reuters) &#8211; Hedge funds Corvex Management LP and Sachem Head Capital Management LP have built stakes in U.S. health insurer Centene Corp and are exploring challenging its planned $17.3 billion acquisition of WellCare Health Plans Inc, people familiar with the matter said on Monday. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-wellcare-health-m-a-centene-exclusive\/exclusive-hedge-funds-target-centene-may-oppose-wellcare-deal-sources-idUSKCN1SC1WJ\">To read this article:<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Reuters) &#8211; Hedge funds Corvex Management LP and Sachem Head Capital Management LP have built stakes in U.S. health insurer Centene Corp and are exploring challenging its planned $17.3 billion acquisition of WellCare Health Plans Inc, people familiar with the [&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-69150","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69150","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=69150"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69150\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69151,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69150\/revisions\/69151"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}