{"id":76198,"date":"2020-11-09T00:14:04","date_gmt":"2020-11-09T05:14:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=76198"},"modified":"2020-11-08T21:59:41","modified_gmt":"2020-11-09T02:59:41","slug":"billionaire-steve-cohen-closes-takeover-of-new-york-mets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/11\/2020\/billionaire-steve-cohen-closes-takeover-of-new-york-mets.html","title":{"rendered":"Billionaire Steve Cohen closes takeover of New York Mets"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>(Reuters) Billionaire hedge fund manager Steve Cohen on Friday completed the purchase of the New York Mets baseball team in a reported $2.4 billion deal, a record for a North American sports franchise. The 64-year-old Cohen, who is a New York native and a lifelong Mets fan, signed an agreement with Sterling Partners to buy the team in September.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-baseball-newyork-mets-cohen\/billionaire-steve-cohen-announces-take-over-of-new-york-mets-idUSKBN27M2NN\">To read this article:<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Reuters) Billionaire hedge fund manager Steve Cohen on Friday completed the purchase of the New York Mets baseball team in a reported $2.4 billion deal, a record for a North American sports franchise. The 64-year-old Cohen, who is a New [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76198","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76198","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=76198"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76198\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76199,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76198\/revisions\/76199"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}