{"id":37174,"date":"2013-10-01T13:49:13","date_gmt":"2013-10-01T17:49:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/countingpips.com\/?p=37174"},"modified":"2013-10-01T13:49:14","modified_gmt":"2013-10-01T17:49:14","slug":"video-icahn-dines-with-cook-pushes-buyback","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/2013\/10\/01\/video-icahn-dines-with-cook-pushes-buyback\/","title":{"rendered":"VIDEO: Icahn Dines WIth Cook, Pushes Buyback"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div id=\"grabDiv1767162\"><script language=\"javascript\" type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"http:\/\/player.grabnetworks.com\/js\/Player.js?id=1767162&#038;content=v3f85a621e2f4be7deeb6517d78d98e643e06d228&#038;width=542&#038;height=304&#038;tgt=grabnetworks\"><\/script><\/p>\n<div id=\"overlay-adzone\" style=\"overflow:hidden; position:relative\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>NEW YORK (Reuters) &#8211; Activist billionaire investor Carl Icahn said Tuesday on CNBC that his firm has $2 billion invested in shares of technology giant Apple Inc.. Shares of Apple rose over 2 percent on Tuesday on news that Icahn had dinner with Apple chief executive Tim Cook on Monday and &#8220;pushed hard&#8221; for a buyback. &#8220;Had a cordial dinner with Tim last night. We pushed hard for a 150 billion buyback. We decided to continue dialogue in about three weeks,&#8221; Icahn tweeted on Tuesday. &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img src='http:\/\/images.grab-media.com\/wochit_business\/2013\/10\/01\/7e7901e7961f389988cee1f77ef00aef65dc2709_thumbnail.jpg' \/><\/p>\n<p><!--post_img[http:\/\/images.grab-media.com\/wochit_business\/2013\/10\/01\/7e7901e7961f389988cee1f77ef00aef65dc2709_preview.jpg]--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW YORK (Reuters) &#8211; Activist billionaire investor Carl Icahn said Tuesday on CNBC that his firm has $2 billion invested in shares of technology giant Apple Inc.. Shares of Apple rose over 2 percent on Tuesday on news that Icahn had dinner with Apple chief executive Tim Cook on Monday and &#8220;pushed hard&#8221; for a &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/2013\/10\/01\/video-icahn-dines-with-cook-pushes-buyback\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;VIDEO: Icahn Dines WIth Cook, Pushes Buyback&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37174","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37174","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37174"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37174\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}