Excerpt from:  Individual Equities CFDs and Spread Bets
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April 08, 2008

Yahoo! (YHOO) Continues to Defy Microsoft (MSFT)

Spread betting and contracts for differences on individual equities
Spread bets and CFDs should consider that Yahoo! (YHOO) continues to defy Microsoft (MSFT), refusing to allow MSFT to buy YHOO for the proposed $31 a share. MarketWatch reports on Yahoo!'s response to Microsoft:

"We continue to believe that your proposal is not in the best interests of Yahoo and our stockholders," Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang and Chairman Roy Bostock said in a letter to Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer.

Both YHOO and MSFT are down at the open of the US stock markets, but MSFT gained yesterday.


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