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jacques_chester on Oct 31, 2016 | parent | context | favorite | on: CenturyLink to Buy Level 3 for $34B

My understanding, which should not be relied on, is that the market is composed of traders expecting other traders to bid it up in anticipation of CenturyLink bidding it up, so they're bidding it up.

pandemicsyn on Oct 31, 2016 [–]

Or that another suitor will step in and cause an intense bidding war ala Isilon/Data Domain/etc.

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