{"id":81138,"date":"2022-03-31T00:15:24","date_gmt":"2022-03-31T04:15:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=81138"},"modified":"2022-03-31T00:09:13","modified_gmt":"2022-03-31T04:09:13","slug":"apollo-drops-takeover-offer-for-education-group-pearson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/03\/2022\/apollo-drops-takeover-offer-for-education-group-pearson.html","title":{"rendered":"Apollo drops takeover offer for education group Pearson"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>(Reuters) Education group Pearson <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/companies\/PSON.L\" target=\"_blank\">(PSON.L)<\/a> said on Wednesday it had rejected a third takeover offer from Apollo, valuing it at 6.7 billion pounds ($8.8 billion), prompting the U.S. investment company to walk away and sending its shares down 12%. Pearson revealed earlier this month that it had rejected two takeover approaches from Apollo, sending its shares up 22% on the day. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/business\/apollo-drops-takeover-offer-education-group-pearson-2022-03-30\/\">To read this article:<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Reuters) Education group Pearson (PSON.L) said on Wednesday it had rejected a third takeover offer from Apollo, valuing it at 6.7 billion pounds ($8.8 billion), prompting the U.S. investment company to walk away and sending its shares down 12%. Pearson [&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-81138","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81138","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=81138"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81138\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":81139,"href":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81138\/revisions\/81139"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}