{"id":8551,"date":"2008-09-08T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-09-08T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T04:00:00","slug":"hedge-fund-paulson-to-weigh-buying-bank-stocks-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/09\/2008\/hedge-fund-paulson-to-weigh-buying-bank-stocks-report.html","title":{"rendered":"Hedge fund Paulson to weigh buying bank stocks: report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MSN MoneyCentral &#8211; Paulson &amp; Co, a prominent New York  hedge fund, will weigh buying shares or convertible bonds in  banks and other financial institutions that need capital, the  Financial Times reported on its website on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p> John Paulson, its founder, remained bearish on the economy  and the financial sector, but would consider taking positions  in the sector as prices fall to his target levels, the paper  reported, citing two unnamed investors who were on a Paulson  conference call for clients last week.<\/p>\n<p> Paulson is to launch its Recovery fund on October 1, the  paper said.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/news_land.php?i=http:\/\/news.moneycentral.msn.com\/provider\/providerarticle.aspx?feed=OBR&#038;date=20080907&#038;id=9109970\">Read Complete Article<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MSN MoneyCentral &#8211; Paulson &amp; Co, a prominent New York hedge fund, will weigh buying shares or convertible bonds in banks and other financial institutions that need capital, the Financial Times reported on its website on Sunday. John Paulson, its [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[438,2549,2550,406,2551,81,2548,716,947,340,601],"class_list":["post-8551","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated","tag-credit-strategies","tag-diamond-retailer","tag-individual-securities","tag-investment-funds","tag-lombard","tag-newcastle","tag-outdoor-advertising","tag-pariah","tag-propp","tag-savings-and-loan-crisis","tag-securities-firm"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8551","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=8551"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8551\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}