Every investor has an “if only” trade, the missed opportunity that sits in the memory bathed in the glow of what might have been. For owners of Yahoo stock it was the chance to sell out when Microsoft was interested in paying $33 a share in 2008, particularly as the share price has bumbled stubbornly along at less than half that level for most of the 21 months chief executive Carol Bartz has been in charge. So it is little surprise that a new bout of deal speculation has pushed shares in the online company up by a tenth in two days.
每個投資者都有“悔不當初”的交易——記憶深處那些籠罩在“原本可以”的光環下而被錯失的機遇。對于持有雅虎(Yahoo)股票的投資者而言，那個時刻就是2008年微軟(Microsoft)有意出價每股33美元收購這支股票時，特別是鑒于在首席執行官卡羅爾?巴茨(Carol Bartz)掌權的21個月里，雅虎股價大部分時間都頑固地徘徊在不到33美元一半水平的價位上。因此，當再次傳出有關收購交易的猜測時，這家互聯網公司的股價在兩天內被推高10%也就不足為奇了。