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spokanimal commented on an article. 4 hours ago

New Sprint Offer Not Enough for Clearwire Investor

If Clearwire's own financial advisors are saying that Clearwire's equity value is significantly higher than the $3.40 that Sprint is offering, then why is Clearwire's board recommending that investors take the offer?

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spokanimal commented on an article. 2:07 PM

Sprint Ups Clearwire Bid; Vote Postponed

I believe that I speak for a majority of Clearwire's minority shareholders when I say that we're willing to give Sprint a "good" deal for our stock holdings...

... just not an "outlandish"

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spokanimal commented on an article. 6:38 PM

Clearwire's Gloom-and-Doom Proxy Statement

Clearwire's management was painting an optimistic picture of the company's future last fall. They talked about multiple avenues to success, including the sale of some of their massive spectrum holdings.

Then

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spokanimal commented on an article. 1:09 PM

Clearwire Board Lays Out Case in Favor of Sprint Deal

The tone of Clearwire management and board members changed dramatically when Sprint set up a "payoff scheme" by which clearwire's management and board will receive "cashable stock-options" once Sprint's

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spokanimal commented on an article. 2:45 PM

A Crucial Date Ahead for Sprint, DISH, and Clearwire

Clearwire's minority shareholders are now so motivated to reject Sprint's ridiculous, $2.97 offer for clearwire that Masayoshi Son, the CEO of Japan's Softbank, is now musing that he would be OK with owning just the 67% of Clearwire

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spokanimal commented on an article. 2:33 PM

Why Is Clearwire So Popular All of a Sudden?

Sprint spent the last 3 years trying to hammer clearwire's stock price down to a level where they could essentially steal the company from the minority shareholders.

What do you think the whole process of

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spokanimal commented on an article. 3:26 PM

Who Will Be the New Owner of Clearwire?

Regarding your comment:

"During the conference call, Clearwire confirmed that Verizon Wireless had its eyes set on acquiring the company's spectrum licenses for around $1.5 billion, and DISH Network has

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spokanimal commented on an article. 1:10 PM

Cotai Is Still Gaming's Hotspot

One of the key metrics that seasoned analysts use when discussing gaming companies is the concept of the "normalization" of earnings.

Because Travis Hoium is a young fellow who's still learning about

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spokanimal commented on an article. 12:56 PM

3 Things That Could Hobble Annaly Capital

Regarding M-REIT's "tax-favored" status... uuhhh...

... last I checked, my M-REIT dividends weren't "qualified" dividends... they were going off at my full-on, earned-income tax rate.

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spokanimal commented on an article. 12:44 AM

For Once, Clearwire's in the Driver's Seat

Softbank is a foreign company looking to acquire it's own, foreign subsidiary in the U.S. It's ability to do more than just pump a ton of cash into making sprint competitive is non-existent.

As a U.S. company

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spokanimal commented on an article. 3:29 PM

Wynn Holding Steady in Macau

Wynn also played "lucky" in Vegas.

The next time you're in macau, Travis... go to the cage and ask to buy chips...

... they will tell you to buy in at the tables.

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spokanimal commented on an article. 12:46 PM

Sprint's Latest Unexpected Twist

You need to talk to the guy that writes what you're reading, Caroline. You didn't make a whole lot of sense.

Firstly, ddeleo is right about LTE and network vision.

Secondly, Verizon isn't

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spokanimal commented on an article. 2:51 PM

Can Charlie Ergen's Sprint Bid Beat the Softbank Deal?

Dish began their involvement by making an offer for Clearwire that was superior to Sprint's. Clearly, dish values clearwire's vast spectrum holdings and clearwire's infrastructure that currently delivers service to 133 million POPs.

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spokanimal commented on an article. 8:21 PM

China's Secret Billion-Dollar Money Laundering Scheme

The risk to macau gaming is less with laundering than it is with the problem of govt. officials gambling funds that were garnered illicitly from their positions of power.

The visa restrictions in recent years

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spokanimal commented on an article. 12:29 PM

Las Vegas Sands Continues to Fight Lawsuits

In his dialogue, Mr. Hoium is placing to much emphasis on the fact that LVS lost it's original case against Mr. Suen.

On the contrary, the 2, primary reasons that the Nevada supreme court threw out the original

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spokanimal commented on an article. 4:58 PM

DISH's $9 Billion Coffer and the Company's Future

Regarding "sprint and clearwire cozying up"...

... I don't think so.

Sprint can only acquire the other half of clearwire if half of the minority shareholders vote in favor of it...

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spokanimal commented on an article. 4:48 PM

1 Great Dividend You Can Buy Right Now

Today's jobs report sent long-term interest rates plunging... and presumably that included long-term mortgage rates as well.

The "labor participation" rate hit it's lowest point since 1979

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spokanimal commented on an article. 2:22 PM

Clearwire Shareholder Offers Finance Deal

Crest knows that Sprint's ridiculous, $2.97 offer to buy out clearwire was done at a pivotal point in time as clearwire ramps up it's initial TD-LTE cell sites that will constitute the sites that will experience the heaviest, and

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spokanimal commented on an article. 12:51 PM

Clearwire Taking Sprint's Money; Still Talking to DISH

The news from a few weeks ago was that Clearwire's top management and board members will receive large payouts once the company has been acquired by sprint.

Sprint has thus successfully created a formuly by

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spokanimal commented on an article. 4:01 PM

I’m Selling These 2 High-Yield Stocks

You are very clearly, and absolutely, NOT a contrarian investor.

Before you hit your sell button, spend some time looking at the reason that annaly declined last fall... the re-assertion of QE via the transition

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