{"id":10345,"date":"2009-08-31T06:54:40","date_gmt":"2009-08-31T14:54:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=10345"},"modified":"2009-08-31T06:54:40","modified_gmt":"2009-08-31T14:54:40","slug":"buying-bj-services-for-5-5-billion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=10345","title":{"rendered":"Buying BJ Services For $5.5 Billion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I think the price is a little steep.<\/p>\n<p><A HREF=\"http:\/\/ca.news.finance.yahoo.com\/s\/31082009\/6\/finance-baker-hughes-buy-bj-services-5-5-billion.html\">From Yahoo Finance<\/A>:<\/p>\n<p>NEW YORK (Reuters) &#8211; Oilfield services company Baker Hughes Inc said on Monday that it would buy peer BJ Services Co for $5.5 billion in a move to take on sector giants Halliburton Co and Schlumberger Ltd.<\/p>\n<p>The stock-and-cash deal values BJ at a 16 percent premium over its closing price on Friday, said the companies, whose boards have approved the transaction.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I think the price is a little steep. From Yahoo Finance: NEW YORK (Reuters) &#8211; Oilfield services company Baker Hughes Inc said on Monday that it would buy peer BJ Services Co for $5.5 billion in a move to take &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=10345\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[162],"tags":[18722,18721,18724,18720,18723,18725],"class_list":["post-10345","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","tag-baker-hughes-inc","tag-bj-services-co","tag-halliburton-co","tag-oilfield-services-company","tag-schlumberger-ltd","tag-yahoo-finance"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10345","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10345"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10345\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10346,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10345\/revisions\/10346"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}