{"id":706219,"date":"2010-03-31T16:04:07","date_gmt":"2010-03-31T20:04:07","guid":{"rendered":"tag:consumerist.com,2010:\/\/1.10003956"},"modified":"2010-03-31T16:04:56","modified_gmt":"2010-03-31T20:04:56","slug":"billionaire-carl-icahn-dumps-78-of-his-blockbuster-stock-in-one-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/706219","title":{"rendered":"Billionaire Carl Icahn Dumps 78% Of His Blockbuster Stock In One Week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/consumerist.com\/assets_c\/2010\/03\/quick-drop-thumb-417x294-38796.jpg?w=780\">         <\/p>\n<p>Things continue to look bleak for once-great video rental chain Blockbuster as it was revealed today that billionaire Carl Icahn, once the biggest single shareholder in the company, has unloaded around 78% of his Blockbuster stock in the last week.<\/p>\n<p>On March 25, Icahn owned over 19.9 million shares of Blockbuster. As of yesterday, that number had dwindled to around 4.36 million shares. <\/p>\n<p>This news comes one day after Blockbuster was told they were <a href=\"http:\/\/consumerist.com\/2010\/03\/blockbuster-in-danger-of-being-thrown-off-the-nyse.html\" >at risk of being de-listed from the New York Stock Exchange<\/a> and two weeks after the company warned in its annual report that <a href=\"http:\/\/consumerist.com\/2010\/03\/blockbuster-says-they-might-have-to-file-for-bankruptcy.html\" >they may need to file for bankruptcy to stay afloat<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.marketfolly.com\/2010\/03\/carl-icahn-dumps-ton-of-blockbuster-bbi.html?utm_source=feedburner&#038;utm_medium=feed&#038;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+MarketFolly+%28Market+Folly%29&#038;utm_content=Google+Reader#ixzz0jmbWI2n8\" >Carl Icahn Dumps a Ton of Blockbuster <\/a> [Marketfolly]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Things continue to look bleak for once-great video rental chain Blockbuster as it was revealed today that billionaire Carl Icahn, once the biggest single shareholder in the company, has unloaded around 78% of his Blockbuster stock in the last week. On March 25, Icahn owned over 19.9 million shares of Blockbuster. As of yesterday, that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3605,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-706219","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2XID","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/706219","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3605"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=706219"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/706219\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=706219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=706219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=706219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}