It's Monday, November 16th.

Welcome to Market.

I'm Chris Lell joining me in studio today.

The Overlord of Motley Full Services and Products,

Jim Hanson.

I just made that. I'm going to put that on my business. I just made that one. I love that title.

Run with that one. We're going to dip into the full mail bag. But we're going to start with the deal of the day.

Merger Monday living up to its name once again.

Marriott International is buying Starwood Hotels for 12.2 billion in cash and stock,

thus creating the largest hotel company in the world.

Why are shares of Starwood falling?

Like if this is such an awesome deal, why is Starwood the company being bought out? Why are their shares trading about 5% lower?

Well, Starwood has been up for sale for a couple of weeks, if not months now.

So I think, you know, the market have been speculating that the

that the takeout would have been at a higher price than it is currently although

it is kind of a stock deal so if you expect the synergies to play out then you

know how Star Wars performing today isn't isn't that relevant but that that's why

Starward is following just because people thought a deal was in the works and they

just speculated that it would come at a more expensive price tag.

It does seem putting aside the price drop expensive price

drop.

It does seem on the surface like this is a deal that could work out pretty well when you

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