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fool power to 500 500. It's Monday February 11th. Welcome to Market Foolry.

I'm Chris Hill.

Joining me in studio on a rainy Monday is Abby Mallin.

Thanks for being here.

Thanks for having me. We're going to dip it in the full mail bag.

We're going to talk restaurant stocks we're going to start

with the deal of the day.

Morgan Stanley is buying Solium Capital for 900 million dollars, Solium Capital based in Alberta, Canada, prepares stock plans for

startup companies and shares of Solium are up 42% today. So good for those folks.

Morgan Stanley, it's their biggest deal. 42% today. So good for those folks.

Morgan Stanley, it's their biggest deal since the financial crisis.

First, do you like this deal?

Yeah, I think it's an interesting deal for three reasons. The first is that, so as you mentioned, Solium Capital is a Canadian company and they provide stock plans for startups. So I think there's really three big takeaways from this. The first is that

Solium provides predictability to Morgan Stanley earnings. So wealth

management is a subscription division model for Morgan Stanley. This is sort of an easy plug-in for them. There's cross-selling

opportunities. Also, there's, you know, down the line, there could be retirement planning

opportunities for these clients. So a lot of opportunity just from the get-go with this sort of acquisition.

But then the second thing that I think is interesting is a while ago, or I guess starting in the beginning of last year we really

saw a lot of predicted mergers and acquisitions in the banking sector and we're just now

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