{"id":75602,"date":"2020-09-15T00:07:05","date_gmt":"2020-09-15T04:07:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=75602"},"modified":"2020-09-14T22:06:27","modified_gmt":"2020-09-15T02:06:27","slug":"gm-conducted-appropriate-diligence-on-2-billion-nikola-deal-ceo-mary-barra-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/09\/2020\/gm-conducted-appropriate-diligence-on-2-billion-nikola-deal-ceo-mary-barra-says.html","title":{"rendered":"GM conducted \u2018appropriate diligence\u2019 on $2 billion Nikola deal, CEO Mary Barra says"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>(CNBC) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/quotes\/?symbol=GM\">General Motors<\/a> conducted \u201cappropriate diligence\u201d regarding a $2 billion deal with electric vehicle start-up Nikola, GM CEO <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/mary-barra\/\">Mary Barra<\/a> said Monday. Barra\u2019s comments are a response to increased scrutiny of Nikola following fraud claims made last week by short-selling firm Hindenburg Research. Nikola on Monday disputed several of the claims but didn\u2019t deny some of its actions, including a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2020\/09\/14\/nikola-details-false-and-misleading-information-of-short-sellers-fraud-claims.html\">staged video showing a semitruck<\/a> that appeared to be functional but wasn\u2019t.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2020\/09\/14\/barra-gm-conducted-appropriate-diligence-on-2-billion-nikola-deal.html\">To read this article:<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(CNBC) General Motors conducted \u201cappropriate diligence\u201d regarding a $2 billion deal with electric vehicle start-up Nikola, GM CEO Mary Barra said Monday. Barra\u2019s comments are a response to increased scrutiny of Nikola following fraud claims made last week by short-selling [&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-75602","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75602","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=75602"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75602\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75603,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75602\/revisions\/75603"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}