Wedding Bells for Sprint & T-Mobile
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🗓️ 25 September 2017
⏱️ 19 minutes
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Summary
Sprint and T-Mobile are close to a merger. Jason Moser and Taylor Muckerman analyze the long-term trend around mobile carriers and the potential for anti-trust concerns. Plus, we dig into General Electric’s latest sale and Twitter’s latest glimmer of hope.
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| 0:00.0 | It's Monday, September 25th. |
| 0:03.6 | Welcome to Market Foolry. |
| 0:04.8 | I'm Chris Hill joining me in studio today |
| 0:06.2 | from Million Dollar Portfolio Jason Moser |
| 0:08.1 | and from Stock Advisor Canada, Taylor Markerman. |
| 0:10.6 | Happy Monday. |
| 0:11.5 | Hey, hey, hey. Nice to be in a nice cool studio. |
| 0:15.0 | Not too shabby. |
| 0:16.0 | It's going to be 90 degrees again. |
| 0:18.0 | Alexa this morning, you said Alexa, what's the weather forecast for a day? |
| 0:21.0 | She's like, it's going to be clear and sunny and |
| 0:23.5 | the temperature is going to hit about 185 degrees. But those shorts on |
| 0:29.2 | it's late September. Yeah, she's not going to scare you wrong. No, no. She's reliable when it comes to the weather I got to say man. |
| 0:36.0 | We got a bunch of news for a Monday that is not earning season. We've got a couple of deals working and a glimmer of hope for Twitter that we will get to. |
| 0:46.0 | Let's start with Telecom Sprint and T-Mobile are maybe possibly in the process of getting together and got to give credit to David |
| 0:56.5 | Faber at CNBC who we've had as a guest on the Motley Full Money show before and he's been doing a lot of legwork on this |
| 1:04.9 | story but here's where things are right now. Sprint and Team Mobile are entering |
| 1:11.1 | into due diligence in what would be a stock for stock deal. |
| 1:15.0 | They are hoping to reach an agreement in the next few weeks. |
| 1:19.0 | And this is, Jason, more complicated than just your typical potential merger because there are |
| 1:29.1 | controlling forces outside of T-Mobile and Sprint that are involved here you have Deutsche Telecom |
| 1:34.6 | which if this deal goes through because they are the majority owner of T-Mobile I |
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