The good news helped push Twitter's stock (TWTR) up by more than 11 % on Wednesday following the report, the largest increase since the company was the subject of
takeover speculation in October.
Not exact matches
Consolidation, and
speculation of more
takeover activity, is a third — and more likely — factor at work
in an industry where Australia retains its natural advantages.
The U.S. media are silent about the most important topic policy makers are discussing here (and I suspect
in Asia too): how to protect their countries from three inter-related dynamics: (1) the surplus dollars pouring into the rest of the world for yet further financial
speculation and corporate
takeovers; (2) the fact that central banks are obliged to recycle these dollar inflows to buy U.S. Treasury bonds to finance the federal U.S. budget...
In early March, it reached the upper end of this range, much the same level as the peak a year earlier, against a background of, inter alia, strong domestic profit results,
speculation of foreign
takeovers, and rising commodity prices (especially base metals).
Since Treasury Wine Estates was demerged from brewer Foster's and floated on the Australian Securities Exchange it has been the subject of heavy
takeover speculation with its iconic wine brands and assets on the shopping list of most global players
in the wine and wider beverages market.
«
Speculation and football go hand
in hand and over the past few weeks there's been plenty of talk about Everton
takeovers and investment,» he said.
AC Milan will see the
takeover of the club completed later this week, and so
speculation is undoubtedly set to ramp up
in the coming weeks.
AC Milan are expected to see the
takeover of the club completed next month, and
in turn that has led to
speculation linking them with big moves this summer.
But as some of the industry's biggest players look to M&A for expansion opportunities
in a slowing market,
speculation of another kind has dominated the headlines, from reports that Burberry had rejected multiple
takeover approaches to LVMH's denial that it had acquired Supreme to Coach's widely covered pursuit of Kate Spade.
The San Antonio Fire & Police Pension Fund, an AMLN investor, has sued the company for agreeing to the poison put about the time
takeover speculation began
in 2007.
In the meantime, the stock's main boost since last year has been the fact that it's been the subject of
takeover speculation.