Big Deals and Snap Judgements
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The Motley Fool
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🗓️ 16 January 2019
⏱️ 20 minutes
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Summary
Financial technology provider Fiserv announces plans to buy payment processor First Data in a $22 billion all-stock deal. United flies higher on strong earnings. Snap sinks on news that its CFO is leaving after only 8 months on the job. And McDonalds loses a Big Mac battle. Analysts Emily Flippen and Jason Moser tackle those stories and talk about some surprising news from Apple. Thanks to LinkedIn for supporting The Motley Fool. Go to https://www.linkedin.com/fool and get $50 off your first job post.
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| 0:15.0 | It's Wednesday January 16th. |
| 0:19.0 | Welcome to Market Foolery. |
| 0:20.0 | I'm Matt Greer and joining me in studio we have Motley Full analyst Emily Flippin and |
| 0:25.2 | Jason Moser Emily and Jason welcome. |
| 0:27.8 | Edo! |
| 0:28.8 | Great to be here. |
| 0:29.8 | Lots to talk about we have some snap we have some United Continental we have some snap. We have some United Continental. We have |
| 0:34.2 | some Apple and we have McDonald's losing. Yes, losing in court. You don't |
| 0:40.3 | hear about that every day. But let's begin with the big deal of the day. |
| 0:44.7 | Financial technology provider FISERV |
| 0:47.2 | is buying payment processor first data |
| 0:50.0 | in a $22 billion all stock deal. |
| 0:54.0 | Now Jason, that $22 billion number represents a nearly 30% premium over where first data closed |
| 1:00.6 | on Tuesday and first data up big today. |
| 1:03.7 | Yeah, I mean this is a, I think a very good deal for first data shareholders, so congratulations. |
| 1:08.7 | You should feel good about this. |
| 1:10.4 | Fiesor of as a company, Matt, I talk about on industry focus here and there on Mondays, |
| 1:15.3 | but ultimately in a nutshell this buys FISERV market share into a part of the value chain |
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