{"id":7300,"date":"2008-03-13T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-03-13T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T04:00:00","slug":"wamu-gets-capital-offer-from-uk-hedge-fund","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/03\/2008\/wamu-gets-capital-offer-from-uk-hedge-fund.html","title":{"rendered":"WaMu gets Capital Offer from UK Hedge Fund"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Reuters &#8211; U.K. hedge fund Toscafund Asset Management LLP has  approached Washington Mutual Inc., offering to  participate in any consortium looking to recapitalize the bank, The Wall Street  Journal reported on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Citing a person familiar with the matter, the Journal said on its Website  that the London-based firm approached WaMu&#8217;s board this week with an offer to  invest its own money.<\/p>\n<p>Washington Mutual shares rose more than 12 percent on Tuesday amid  speculation of a possible capital infusion by Goldman Sachs Group Inc. or Warren  Buffett.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/ousivMolt\/idUSN1220302720080313\" target=\"_self\"> Read Complete Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reuters &#8211; U.K. hedge fund Toscafund Asset Management LLP has approached Washington Mutual Inc., offering to participate in any consortium looking to recapitalize the bank, The Wall Street Journal reported on Wednesday. Citing a person familiar with the matter, the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7300","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7300"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7300\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}