Twenty First Century Fox's Canceled Deal With Time Warner Ranks As Second Largest In US


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This is what Nic Chahine averages with his options buys. Not selling covered calls or spreads... BUYING options. Most traders don't even have a winning percentage of 27% buying options. He has an 83% win rate. Here's how he does it.


Twenty-First Century Fox (Nasdaq: FOXA) cancelled $98B bid for Time Warner (NYSE: TWX) ranks as the second largest cancelation of a US merger and acquisition transaction. The only larger canceled deal came in 2000 when MCI Worldcom canceled a bid it began in 1999 for Sprint (NYSE: S). The MCI Worldcom and Sprint deal was valued at $127.8B in 1999. The canceled Fox bid for Time Warner brings announced US M&A deals down to $968B from $1.064T according to data from Capital IQ. M&A deals to date in 2014 are valued around $227B, up from 2013s full year deal value of $154B.

2014 Canceled M&A Deals By Sector - Data provided by Capital IQ

Sector Number of Deals
Financials 83
Consumer Discretionary 59
Information Technology 37
No Primary Industry Assigned 36
Energy 32
Industrials 29
Materials 21
Healthcare 21
Consumer Staples 20
Telecommunication Services 7
Utilities 3

27% profits every 20 days?

This is what Nic Chahine averages with his options buys. Not selling covered calls or spreads... BUYING options. Most traders don't even have a winning percentage of 27% buying options. He has an 83% win rate. Here's how he does it.


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