Business Maverick: The big winners in Musk’s Twitter deal? Merger arbitrage traders

  • 📰 dailymaverick
  • ⏱ Reading Time:
  • 25 sec. here
  • 2 min. at publisher
  • 📊 Quality Score:
  • News: 13%
  • Publisher: 84%

ایران اخبار اخبار

ایران آخرین اخبار,ایران سرفصلها

Elon Musk’s decision to revive his $44-billion buyout of Twitter is shockingly good news for investors including billionaire Carl Icahn who continued to bet on the outcome of the deal through months of uncertainty.

proceed with the deal at the original offer price at $54.20 a share on Tuesday, the social media company’s stock rallied as much as 23%, pushing the spread to its narrowest level since the pair entered a merger pact back in April.

Arbitrage traders make money by betting on mergers agreements, with the potential for millions of dollars in profits if the deals go through. Now, all that’s left is to wait for the agreement to close. The veteran investor purchased the stake under the belief that Musk wouldn’t be able to get out of the deal, and the assumption that the value of the stock was in the range of roughly the mid-$30s a share, making the downside risk if Musk won the trial minimal, they added.

 

از نظر شما متشکرم. نظر شما پس از بررسی منتشر خواهد شد.
این خبر را خلاصه کرده ایم تا بتوانید سریع آن را بخوانید. اگر به خبر علاقه مند هستید، می توانید متن کامل را اینجا بخوانید. ادامه مطلب:

 /  🏆 3. in İR

ایران آخرین اخبار, ایران سرفصلها