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Technology Stocks : Gemstar Intl (GMST)

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To: tekboy who wrote (3225)7/3/2000 11:12:38 AM
From: JH  Read Replies (2) of 6516
 
Subject: TVGIA + GMST merger

The conversion discount is currently at 19%. The market is signalling the following:

1) that the level of uncertainty for the merger is high. Historically, the discount have peaked at 20% before reversing. This happened at the beginning of February, beginning of April, and NOW, at the beginning of July.

There seems to be a pattern here...

(The discount narrowed to around 3% in Feb/Mar. In Apr/May, the discount narrowed down to around minus 1%)

2) that the arbs who were long TVGIA and short GMST have been either reversing their positions, or adding to the "short TVGIA long GMST" positions

The upshot: if you believe that the merger still has a decent chance of consummating, this may be a pretty good time to sell your GMST and replace them with TVGIA.
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