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Amazon to Acquire Whole Foods for $13.7B(bloomberg.com)
1687 points by whatok 9y ago|824 comments
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by whatok 9y ago
Amazon IPOed at $438mm in 1997. Inflation adjusted that's $668mm. Snapchat's current market cap is $20bn. Not even in the same remote universe. https://www.cnet.com/news/amazon-com-ipo-skyrockets/
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by whatok 9y ago
So insider trading is causing 26% short interest?
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by whatok 9y ago
Snapchat's financials are atrocious compared to any of the companies you listed and growth by all sorts of metrics is slowing. There's a difference.
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by whatok 9y ago
I don't know what their RSU agreement is like but typically you are not able to short your own stock.
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by whatok 9y ago
Stop Pretending You're Not Waging Class Warfare.
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by whatok 9y ago
Venezuela cannot print USD and needs USD to pay coupons/principal.
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by whatok 9y ago
I don't understand what that has to do with your original premise.
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by whatok 9y ago
The bond indenture kinda disagrees with your whole premise here.
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by whatok 9y ago
Venezuela doesn't exactly have the greatest reputation with foreign business interests; especially oil companies.
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by whatok 9y ago
The only reason why this is even made public is because Goldman is a big and easy target. There are mutual funds that I wouldn't be surprised a bunch of people here hold that easily dwarf GS in this space.
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by whatok 9y ago
70% of par, 30%~ from where they were trading throughout the month.
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Uber Fires Former Google Engineer at Heart of Self-Driving Dispute(nytimes.com)
3 points by whatok 9y ago|0 comments
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by whatok 9y ago
Totally depends on what type of fund/strategies you're interested in.
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by whatok 9y ago
Down 18%~ right now. Low of 18.15. #s are worse than could imagine.
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by whatok 9y ago
I'm also here to echo the trader != portfolio manager which seems to be described in this article. There's a vast difference in duties and comp between the same job title at a bank, hedge fund, or prop shop and you really cannot
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Why are most corporate bonds still traded on the phone?(economist.com)
1 points by whatok 10y ago|0 comments
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Mike Tang, the Dad Convicted for Making Son Walk a Mile, Responds to Critics(reason.com)
1 points by whatok 10y ago|0 comments
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by whatok 10y ago
I remember originally attempting to pirate Starcraft from an FTP I had access to from some IRC channel I used to frequent. Even with all the music stripped from the game, my 28.8kbps modem was unable to download it overnight and for whatev
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Twitter sues U.S. government over demand for records of anti-Trump account(twitter.com)
19 points by whatok 10y ago|3 comments
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by whatok 10y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1055389 List was originally published here....
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by whatok 10y ago
Recommend this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Good_Hair
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Soundcloud confirms new $70M credit line after failing to close $100M round(techcrunch.com)
32 points by whatok 10y ago|15 comments
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How Diversity Branding Hurts Diversity(medium.com)
19 points by whatok 10y ago|1 comments
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Thinx Promised a Feminist Utopia to Everyone but Its Employees(racked.com)
2 points by whatok 10y ago|0 comments
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by whatok 10y ago
There's also an additional difference in the industry which is explained in the article: It turns out Wells Fargo had written on Jeremy's U5 report card that he admitted to opening accounts for customers without their authorizatio
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by whatok 10y ago
This really depended on what their role was. Many star traders or analysts were able to get re-hired almost immediately or start their own firms without a problem. Here's an example: https://books.google.com/books?id=
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by whatok 10y ago
They changed the tweet which I guess is factually correct but still misleading.
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Confluent raises $50M to continue growing commercial arm of Apache Kafka(techcrunch.com)
4 points by whatok 10y ago|0 comments
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by whatok 10y ago
What do people think about banks refusing to service marijuana or adult industry customers?

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