Microsoft Abandons Yahoo Takeover After Price Fight
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lol pina, eu por acaso tb estava a procurar isso
encontrei um no Best que tem um PUT da commerzbank
mas atençao que geralmente as entidades fazem logo uma previsao da queda do activo subjacente, pra evitar essas coisas.
mas o que eu gostava de saber era:
na vossa opiniao o que vai isto significar pró google, relativamente aos preços das accoes?
eu acredito numa subida forte (assim espero, visto que detenho algumas - poucas)
o yahoo, obviamente que desce.
a microsoft deve subir, visto que quando foi anunciada a tentativa de take-over, foram mt penalizadas.
Abraço
encontrei um no Best que tem um PUT da commerzbank
mas atençao que geralmente as entidades fazem logo uma previsao da queda do activo subjacente, pra evitar essas coisas.
mas o que eu gostava de saber era:
na vossa opiniao o que vai isto significar pró google, relativamente aos preços das accoes?
eu acredito numa subida forte (assim espero, visto que detenho algumas - poucas)
o yahoo, obviamente que desce.
a microsoft deve subir, visto que quando foi anunciada a tentativa de take-over, foram mt penalizadas.
Abraço
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PUTs Yahoo
Vivam,
Há algum sitio onde se possam comprar put's Yahoo antes do mercado americano abrir na segunda feira ?
Dava um negócio "engraçado", se isso pudesse ser feito ...
Bons negócios,
pm
Há algum sitio onde se possam comprar put's Yahoo antes do mercado americano abrir na segunda feira ?
Dava um negócio "engraçado", se isso pudesse ser feito ...
Bons negócios,
pm
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Ai o AC Investor!
Lá vão umas Yahoo para o baú!
Mas cheira-me que ainda muita tinta vai correr sobre este assunto!
Gap down na segunda?
Abraço
Lá vão umas Yahoo para o baú!
Mas cheira-me que ainda muita tinta vai correr sobre este assunto!
Gap down na segunda?
Abraço
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Microsoft Abandons Yahoo Takeover After Price Fight
By Amy Thomson and Crayton Harrison
May 3 (Bloomberg) -- Microsoft Corp. walked away from its bid for Yahoo! Inc. after failing to agree on a price, a setback to the software maker's efforts to catch Google Inc. in the online advertising market.
The world's largest software maker said it offered to raise its $44.6 billion bid by about $5 billion, to $33 a share. Yahoo demanded $37, Microsoft said today in a statement.
``After careful consideration, we believe the economics demanded by Yahoo do not make sense for us, and it is in the best interests of Microsoft stockholders, employees and other stakeholders to withdraw our proposal,'' Chief Executive Officer Steve Ballmer said in the statement.
Microsoft, whose Internet business lost $228 million last quarter, now faces the challenge of finding alternatives to buying Yahoo, a purchase that would have tripled its share of the U.S. Web search market. The decision also leaves Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang to prove he can revive sales growth and the stock price by keeping the company he co-founded independent.
``Unbelievable,'' said Laura Martin, an analyst at New York- based Soleil Securities Corp. ``This is management putting its employees and its job security ahead of current Yahoo shareholders' interest.''
Yahoo Shares
She estimated Yahoo shares will fall $8, or 28 percent, on Monday because Microsoft's withdrawal combined with concern about the economy and the advertising market will weigh on investors.
Yahoo, the second most popular Internet search engine, rose $1.86 to $28.67 yesterday in Nasdaq Stock Market trading. Microsoft fell 16 cents to $29.24.
Yahoo spokeswoman Diana Wong said she didn't immediately have any comment.
Ballmer had pledged to abandon the bid before he would overpay, saying May 1 that he wouldn't pay ``a dime above'' Yahoo's value. A month before, he gave the Sunnyvale, California- based company three weeks to come to terms on a takeover, a deadline that passed a week ago.
Yahoo had said its rank in the U.S. search market and its Asian operations warrant a higher bid. A person familiar with the matter said this week the company might agree to an advertising partnership with Internet-search market leader Google, increasing pressure on Microsoft to raise its offer.
Fighting Google
Yahoo and Microsoft remain a distant second and third behind Mountain View, California-based Google in Web search queries. Google outsold Microsoft in Web ads by 7-to-1 in its last fiscal year and handles six times as many search queries in the U.S., according to ComScore Inc. in Reston, Virginia.
``It would certainly be challenging for them to do it -- to go it alone and make any real headway against Google,'' said Donovan Gow, an analyst at American Research Technology in San Francisco. ``They're miles behind.''
On April 24, Microsoft reported a 24 percent quarterly drop in sales of Windows and forecast earnings that may miss analysts' estimates.
``With or without a Yahoo combination, Microsoft is focused on the online advertising market,'' Chief Financial Officer Chris Liddell said in a conference call after the third-quarter results. ``The transaction has been anything but speedy, and has been characterized by what would appear to be unrealistic expectations of value.''
Yang rejected Microsoft's cash-and-stock bid Feb. 11, calling the offer too low and pledging to seek alternatives. Yahoo and Time Warner Inc.'s AOL were close to an alliance, a person with knowledge of the talks said on April 9.
Other Options
Yahoo's stock had declined 32 percent in the year before Microsoft's offer as Mountain View, California-based Google attracted more users, and advertisers switched to social- networking sites such as Facebook Inc. and News Corp.'s MySpace social-networking site.
On April 22, Yahoo said first-quarter net income rose to $542.2 million, or 37 cents a share. The company's forecast for the current quarter was in line with analysts' estimates. Less than three weeks before that, Ballmer said an economic slump in the U.S. had hurt Yahoo's business.
Microsoft has other options, Charles Di Bona, an analyst at Sanford C. Bernstein & Co. in New York, said in an April 25 note. The company could buy AOL and then go after MySpace, he said. That would give Microsoft a substantial presence on the Internet, probably at a much lower cost than buying Yahoo, Di Bona said.
To contact the reporter on this story: Amy Thomson in New York at athomson6@bloomberg.net; Crayton Harrison in Dallas at tharrison5@bloomberg.net
Last Updated: May 3, 2008 20:53 EDT
[destaco - "She estimated Yahoo shares will fall $8, or 28 percent, on Monday because Microsoft's withdrawal combined with concern about the economy and the advertising market will weigh on investors."
May 3 (Bloomberg) -- Microsoft Corp. walked away from its bid for Yahoo! Inc. after failing to agree on a price, a setback to the software maker's efforts to catch Google Inc. in the online advertising market.
The world's largest software maker said it offered to raise its $44.6 billion bid by about $5 billion, to $33 a share. Yahoo demanded $37, Microsoft said today in a statement.
``After careful consideration, we believe the economics demanded by Yahoo do not make sense for us, and it is in the best interests of Microsoft stockholders, employees and other stakeholders to withdraw our proposal,'' Chief Executive Officer Steve Ballmer said in the statement.
Microsoft, whose Internet business lost $228 million last quarter, now faces the challenge of finding alternatives to buying Yahoo, a purchase that would have tripled its share of the U.S. Web search market. The decision also leaves Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang to prove he can revive sales growth and the stock price by keeping the company he co-founded independent.
``Unbelievable,'' said Laura Martin, an analyst at New York- based Soleil Securities Corp. ``This is management putting its employees and its job security ahead of current Yahoo shareholders' interest.''
Yahoo Shares
She estimated Yahoo shares will fall $8, or 28 percent, on Monday because Microsoft's withdrawal combined with concern about the economy and the advertising market will weigh on investors.
Yahoo, the second most popular Internet search engine, rose $1.86 to $28.67 yesterday in Nasdaq Stock Market trading. Microsoft fell 16 cents to $29.24.
Yahoo spokeswoman Diana Wong said she didn't immediately have any comment.
Ballmer had pledged to abandon the bid before he would overpay, saying May 1 that he wouldn't pay ``a dime above'' Yahoo's value. A month before, he gave the Sunnyvale, California- based company three weeks to come to terms on a takeover, a deadline that passed a week ago.
Yahoo had said its rank in the U.S. search market and its Asian operations warrant a higher bid. A person familiar with the matter said this week the company might agree to an advertising partnership with Internet-search market leader Google, increasing pressure on Microsoft to raise its offer.
Fighting Google
Yahoo and Microsoft remain a distant second and third behind Mountain View, California-based Google in Web search queries. Google outsold Microsoft in Web ads by 7-to-1 in its last fiscal year and handles six times as many search queries in the U.S., according to ComScore Inc. in Reston, Virginia.
``It would certainly be challenging for them to do it -- to go it alone and make any real headway against Google,'' said Donovan Gow, an analyst at American Research Technology in San Francisco. ``They're miles behind.''
On April 24, Microsoft reported a 24 percent quarterly drop in sales of Windows and forecast earnings that may miss analysts' estimates.
``With or without a Yahoo combination, Microsoft is focused on the online advertising market,'' Chief Financial Officer Chris Liddell said in a conference call after the third-quarter results. ``The transaction has been anything but speedy, and has been characterized by what would appear to be unrealistic expectations of value.''
Yang rejected Microsoft's cash-and-stock bid Feb. 11, calling the offer too low and pledging to seek alternatives. Yahoo and Time Warner Inc.'s AOL were close to an alliance, a person with knowledge of the talks said on April 9.
Other Options
Yahoo's stock had declined 32 percent in the year before Microsoft's offer as Mountain View, California-based Google attracted more users, and advertisers switched to social- networking sites such as Facebook Inc. and News Corp.'s MySpace social-networking site.
On April 22, Yahoo said first-quarter net income rose to $542.2 million, or 37 cents a share. The company's forecast for the current quarter was in line with analysts' estimates. Less than three weeks before that, Ballmer said an economic slump in the U.S. had hurt Yahoo's business.
Microsoft has other options, Charles Di Bona, an analyst at Sanford C. Bernstein & Co. in New York, said in an April 25 note. The company could buy AOL and then go after MySpace, he said. That would give Microsoft a substantial presence on the Internet, probably at a much lower cost than buying Yahoo, Di Bona said.
To contact the reporter on this story: Amy Thomson in New York at athomson6@bloomberg.net; Crayton Harrison in Dallas at tharrison5@bloomberg.net
Last Updated: May 3, 2008 20:53 EDT
[destaco - "She estimated Yahoo shares will fall $8, or 28 percent, on Monday because Microsoft's withdrawal combined with concern about the economy and the advertising market will weigh on investors."
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