{"id":73139,"date":"2020-02-28T00:03:23","date_gmt":"2020-02-28T05:03:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=73139"},"modified":"2020-02-27T23:09:15","modified_gmt":"2020-02-28T04:09:15","slug":"square-emerges-as-a-coronavirus-hedge-while-other-payment-stocks-get-crushed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/02\/2020\/square-emerges-as-a-coronavirus-hedge-while-other-payment-stocks-get-crushed.html","title":{"rendered":"Square emerges as a coronavirus hedge while other payment stocks get crushed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(CNBC) Square has been an outlier in this week\u2019s payment stock wreckage.Shares of Mastercard, Visa, American Express and Paypal were battered as companies warned of a slowdown in spending and travel due to the quickly-spreading coronavirus. Meanwhile, Square surged as much as 10% a day after reporting better-than expected fourth-quarter results and upbeat guidance. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2020\/02\/27\/square-emerges-as-coronavirus-hedge-after-earnings.html\">To read this article:<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(CNBC) Square has been an outlier in this week\u2019s payment stock wreckage.Shares of Mastercard, Visa, American Express and Paypal were battered as companies warned of a slowdown in spending and travel due to the quickly-spreading coronavirus. Meanwhile, Square surged as [&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-73139","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73139","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=73139"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73139\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73140,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73139\/revisions\/73140"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}