{"id":69611,"date":"2019-06-08T00:06:20","date_gmt":"2019-06-08T04:06:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=69611"},"modified":"2019-06-11T01:56:52","modified_gmt":"2019-06-11T05:56:52","slug":"barnes-noble-to-be-bought-by-hedge-fund-elliott-in-683-million-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/06\/2019\/barnes-noble-to-be-bought-by-hedge-fund-elliott-in-683-million-deal.html","title":{"rendered":"Barnes &#038; Noble to be bought by hedge fund Elliott in $683 million deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(Reuters) &#8211; Barnes &#038; Noble Inc said on Friday it would be bought by hedge fund Elliott Management Corp in an all-cash deal valued at about $683 million, including debt. Shareholders of the once-dominant U.S. book retailer would be paid $6.50 per share, representing a premium of about 42% as of Wednesday\u2019s close. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/barnes-noble-ma-elliot\/barnes-noble-to-be-bought-by-hedge-fund-elliott-in-683-million-deal-idUSL4N23E1PT\">To read this article:<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Reuters) &#8211; Barnes &#038; Noble Inc said on Friday it would be bought by hedge fund Elliott Management Corp in an all-cash deal valued at about $683 million, including debt. Shareholders of the once-dominant U.S. book retailer would be paid [&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-69611","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69611","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69611"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69611\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69612,"href":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69611\/revisions\/69612"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}