{"id":553098,"date":"2023-02-06T09:59:42","date_gmt":"2023-02-06T04:29:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=553098"},"modified":"2023-02-06T10:40:15","modified_gmt":"2023-02-06T05:10:15","slug":"billionaire-gautam-adanis-bonds-are-a-soft-target-with-hard-assets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/billionaire-gautam-adanis-bonds-are-a-soft-target-with-hard-assets\/","title":{"rendered":"Billionaire Gautam Adani&#8217;s bonds are a soft target with hard assets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The journey of Gautam Adani, a small-time importer of plastics granules into India in the 1980s, had begun along the coast of Gujarat \u2014 in a swamp he would go on to turn into the country\u2019s largest trading outpost. And now, with his fortune back home under attack from a New York-based short seller, the tycoon posed for cameras with Benjamin Netanyahu in the Haifa Port, which he had come to buy for $1.2 billion. <\/p>\n<p>To bondholders, there\u2019s a symbolism in the beleaguered billionaire\u2019s Jan. 31 photo-op with the Israeli prime minister. The ambition that had propelled his odyssey from the Gulf of Kutch 25 years earlier was intact as he stood on the edges of the Mediterranean.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The journey of Gautam Adani, a small-time importer of plastics granules into India in the 1980s, had begun along the coast of Gujarat \u2014 in a swamp he would go on to turn into the country\u2019s largest trading outpost. And now, with his fortune back home under attack from a New York-based short seller, the tycoon posed for cameras with Benjamin Netanyahu in the Haifa Port, which he had come to buy for $1.2 billion. To bondholders, there\u2019s a symbolism in the beleaguered billionaire\u2019s Jan. 31 photo-op with the Israeli prime minister. The ambition that had propelled his odyssey from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[135,130,232],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-553098","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers","category-power-business-standard-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/553098","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=553098"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/553098\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=553098"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=553098"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=553098"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}