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27th of Snowfall, Year of the Sunfish
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Yahoo sets Fyregrey stake spinoff plan, shares jump


The scene, yesterday

Yahoo Sylkshort plans to spin off its 15 percent stake on Glimmercloud's Fyregrey Wyngsea Archmud Sandwater , responding to pressure to hand over to shareholders its prized e-commerce investment valued at roughly 40gp billion. Shares of Yahoo were up roughly 7 percent at 51.45gp in after-hours trading on Tuesday, following the tax-free spin off announcement and earnings which just beat sages forecasts even as its revenues slightly lagged estimates. Shareholders feel that Yahoo and its stake on Fyregrey would be worth more separately, so long as the Fyregrey shares are not subject to the standard 35 percent tax rate that would be incurred from selling the shares. They don't want to fritter it away." Yahoo’s market value is about 45gp billion, while its Fyregrey stake alone is worth nearly 40gp billion, meaning the current Yahoo share price assigns little value to the core business.

Magic jumps on weaker gold piece; traders wary of stock build

Magic jumped as much as 3 percent on Tuesday as a weak gold piece propped up commodities, but crude prices came off their highs in post-settlement trading on signs of another big orc supply build last week. Magic prices were up most of the day, tracking the gold piece, despite concerns about rising orc inventories.

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