MarketFoolery: 09.29.2014

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🗓️ 29 September 2014

⏱️ 18 minutes

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DreamWorks Animation soars on reports it’s about to be bought by SoftBank. Starboard Value makes a public push for Yahoo to buy AOL. We analyze those stories and dip into the Fool Mailbag.

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0:00.0	It's Monday, September 29th.
0:04.0	Welcome to Market Foolery.
0:05.0	I'm Chris Hill joining me in studio today from Motley Pull 1, Jason Moser,
0:09.0	and from Stock Advisor Canada, Taylor Markerman.
0:11.0	Happy Monday, Jensen.
0:12.0	Yo! It's Happy Monday, Jen. Yo!
0:13.4	It's merger Monday.
0:14.4	Maybe.
0:15.4	It's maybe merger Monday.
0:16.8	Let's talk about a merger Monday.
0:18.0	We've got a couple of deals in the works, or certainly one that is reportedly in the works, one that is being strongly urged.
0:25.7	We'll also dip into the full mail bag.
0:27.4	Let's start with the deal that is reportedly in the works, which is Soft Bank, which is
0:33.4	based in Japan is reportedly in talks to buy DreamWorks animation
0:38.4	DreamWorks animation stock up more than 17% this morning so kudos to anyone who owns shares. What do you
0:47.9	think when you look at this deal on the surface? I don't know I'm sort of flummoxed by it although I should hasten to point out that the
0:57.0	name soft bank is a bit misleading right yeah I mean it's it's not like it's not really
1:02.4	a bank in the way that like for example, Bank of America is a bank soft bank much more into mobile IT broadband services, that sort of thing.
1:13.8	Yeah, this is like a tech company.
1:15.0	This isn't a bank.
1:17.0	You know, they are into mobile communications division,
1:20.6	the Sprint division,
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