05/03/2008 星期六MSFT withdraws YHOO bid

05/03/2008 星期六MSFT withdraws YHOO bid

昨天（星期五）YHOO跳空高開高走，成交量80.5M（日間78M/AH 2.5M），是近一個月日成交量的3-5倍。日線成跳高開盤帶長上下影線的大陽線。日內一分鍾圖在前半個小時探低後拉回開盤價呈U型。橫盤後在ET 2:30pm開始放量突破從$28拉升到$28.80，全天絕大多數成交量成交在突破後。盤後成交2.5M，漲$1.03至$29.70。消息麵暗示收購價有可能加碼（見附錄）。

然而，周末出了一下消息說有可能降$8，一看圖，知道$20是年低支撐線。可憐的跟風者和賭博者！Joseph Weisenthal是不用負責任地。

為啥周末出消息呢？周末是不影響股價的呀？是為周一超低空開盤醞釀氣氛和心理準備吧？

周一可能來個超低空開盤，放巨量，收個小陽線，在底下要先盤一陣子了。

主力翻雲覆雨啊！利用這種消息隨便玩。

看圖識字從來都不錯。

這種並購其實華爾街的投資方影響巨大，甚至是始作俑者，價格的底牌早就理好了，頻繁發這種消息不過是想在並購完成前在二級市場上多撈幾票罷了。

Reuters
Microsoft withdraws offer for Yahoo
Saturday May 3, 9:33 pm ET
By Anupreeta Das

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp (NasdaqGS: MSFT - News ) withdrew its offer for Yahoo Inc (NasdaqGS: YHOO - News ) on Saturday as negotiations fell through on price, even after the software giant raised its bid by about $5 billion to $47.5 billion.

Microsoft Chief Executive Steve Ballmer said his company increased its offer to $33 per share, from the $31 per share cash-and-stock bid that it initially made on January 31. But Yahoo was looking for $37 a share, Ballmer said.

"Despite our best efforts, including raising our bid by roughly $5 billion, Yahoo has not moved toward accepting our offer," Ballmer said 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," said Ballmer.

Yahoo was not immediately available for comment.

Laura Martin, a senior analyst at Soleil Securities, said Yahoo was demanding too high a price and she expected its shares to fall $8 on Monday when trading resumes on the Nasdaq. The shares closed up nearly 7 percent at $28.67 on Friday on hopes of an agreement between Microsoft and Yahoo.

"The Yahoo guys want too much money for their company. We think $33 a share is fair in the context of the weakening economic environment and adverse advertising trends," Martin said, who has a "hold" rating on Yahoo shares.

"I think you'll see a number of shareholder lawsuits on Monday. They've prioritized employees over shareholders in the hopes that someday they can create more than $8 billion of value, even if they have no track record of doing so," she said.

Yahoo had previously refused to enter formal negotiations with Microsoft, saying the initial price it made public in February did not properly value Yahoo's search and display advertising technology, or its overseas holdings.

Yahoo has also courted a possible deal with Time Warner Inc's (NYSE: TWX - News ) AOL Internet division and a search advertising partnership with Google Inc (NasdaqGS: GOOG - News ).

In a letter to Yahoo Chief Executive Jerry Yang, Ballmer said he was concerned such plans would hurt Yahoo's own search and display advertising strategies, and impair its ability to retain talented engineers.

"We regard with particular concern your apparent planning to respond to a "hostile" bid by pursuing a new arrangement that would involve or lead to the outsourcing to Google of key paid Internet search terms offered by Yahoo today," he said.

"In our view, such an arrangement with the dominant search provider would make an acquisition of Yahoo undesirable to us," Ballmer said in his letter, made public on Saturday.

Microsoft wants to buy Yahoo to gain a stronger foothold in its battle with Web search leader Google, which is rapidly expanding into the software maker's own turf with new Web-based applications.

Yahoo's advisers had initially said it would not negotiate with Microsoft for anything less than $40 a share, a person familiar with Microsoft's thinking said. But amid threats by Microsoft to launch a hostile takeover, Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang suggested a price of $38 a share, the person said.

On Saturday, Yang and Yahoo co-founder David Filo met Ballmer and Microsoft's Platforms & Services Division President Kevin Johnson in Seattle, where they communicated that Yahoo's board was willing to cut a deal at $37 a share, although the two co-founders remained committed to a dollar more per share, the source said.

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Updated: Microsoft And Yahoo In 'Last Ditch' Negotiations; Yahoo Shares Up; Microsoft Raises Bid
Friday May 2, 2:44 pm ET
By Joseph Weisenthal

Despite no word of "official" negotiations, it's clear that the two sides have been in negotiations of some sort for awhile, and now WSJ says Microsoft and Yahoo are in "last ditch" negotiations to reach a friendly deal. It's not hard to guess what they're negotiating about: price. And as the report would have it, there's no guarantee that the negotiations will result in anything. Unofficially, the two sides remain $3-$4 apart. Given Yahoo's refusal to accept the original offer, every path at Microsoft's (NasdaqGS: MSFT - News ) disposal has drawbacks. A raised bid reduces the economic justification for the deal, while a walk leaves Microsoft as a distant online player. And a hostile bid is messy with no guarantee of success. The real question is whether Yang and Ballmer can reach some agreement that allows both to save face, since a compromise would probably require both to go back on some previously made statement. Meanwhile, Yahoo investors are relieved: the stock is up nearly 7 percent in late-day trading.

Staci adds : As important as price is to making the deal stick, let's not forget another major piece of the puzzle: what actually happens to Yahoo post-merger? That has to be part of any serious discussion and reaching agreement on that also could help make nail things down. Does Yahoo become a wholly owned subsidiary of Microsoft managed only by existing Microsoft execs? Who from Yahoo gets seats on the board (not that it's really anything but symbolic) and a vice-chairman title or the like? Are Jerry Yang and David Filo supposed to take their money and go home or do they have any real role to play in a post-indie Yahoo?

Update : Microsoft had already signaled unofficially, that it was ready to raise its bid, and now it has apparently said that directly to Yahoo (NasdaqGS: YHOO - News ). NYT reports that it has raised its bid by "several dollars", although the exact amount is not known. The report adds that major Yahoo shareholders have been getting calls from the companies in an effort to figure out what price they're really looking for.