{"id":8883,"date":"2008-10-17T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-10-17T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T04:00:00","slug":"paulson-to-hedge-funds-no-soup-for-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/10\/2008\/paulson-to-hedge-funds-no-soup-for-you.html","title":{"rendered":"Paulson To Hedge Funds &#8220;No Soup For You&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In an interview on Bloomberg TV, Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson, when asked whether hedge funds might be eligible for the U.S. plan injecting capital into financial companies he said, &quot;the program right now is for banks and thrifts.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>On Monday, the Treasury announced plans to use $250 billion of the $700 billion financial bailout plan approved by congress to buy preferred shares in a number of financial companies in an effort to bolster the struggling banking system and stimulate lending.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/news_land.php?i=http:\/\/www.streetinsider.com\/Insiders+Blog\/Paulson+To+Hedge+Funds+%22No+Soup+For+You%22\/4074458.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Read Complete Article<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In an interview on Bloomberg TV, Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson, when asked whether hedge funds might be eligible for the U.S. plan injecting capital into financial companies he said, &quot;the program right now is for banks and thrifts.&quot; On Monday, [&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":[1659,2348,2796,2833,2802,1053,1658,3229,3230],"class_list":["post-8883","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated","tag-asia-stock-markets","tag-bank-loans","tag-dealer-operations","tag-european-exchange","tag-interest-rate-hikes","tag-legislation","tag-peers","tag-square-metres","tag-turbulent-economic-times"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8883","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=8883"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8883\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}