On retail sales. Janet yellen and more more. Peter cook looks at regulatory issues behind the comcast time warner deal. We look at the stock moves in the 45 billion acquisition. Good afternoon. One thing thats important to note about this acquisition is its a stock transaction. Shareholders will get stock of comcast in return for this deal. They are going to get 2. 875 for every time warner share they old. That values the company at about 17 higher than yesterdays close. If you look at the Time Warner Cable shares today, youll notice theorizing which is what you might expect but they are trading below that offer price. There could be a couple of reasons behind that. First of all, comcast shares are declining so the value of the bid is declining to some extent. Second of all, its going to take a long time for this deal to close. It could be the end of 2014. And third of all, and of course peter is going to get more into this is the Regulatory Risk associated with this deal. Thats why th
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