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Matt Levine is a Bloomberg View columnist writing about Wall Street and the financial world. He is a former investment banker, mergers and acquisitions lawyer, and high school Latin teacher. Levine was previously an editor of Dealbreaker. He has worked as an investment banker at Goldman Sachs and a mergers and acquisitions lawyer at Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz. He spent a year clerking for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit and taught high school Latin. Levine has a bachelor's d…

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Using the Price of Magic to Estimate the Cost of Capital

Using the Price of Magic to Estimate the Cost of Capital

On Friday, I wrote about the delightful capital arbitrage of DTA-linked notes, in which banks are looking to …

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Matt Levine’s Money Stuff: Shorts Will Sell You SpaceX

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By Matt Levine Verified
| Bloomberg Law Verified
Right now, about 5% of SpaceX’s stock is available to trade, just the 639 million shares that it sold in its initial public offering last month. By the middle of next month, about 12% of SpaceX’s stock (about 1.58 billion shares) will be available to trade, as some pre-IPO SpaceX shareholders are partially released from lockup agreements that currently prevent them from selling.
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Matt Levine’s Money Stuff: Keeping Mergers Under the Radar

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By Matt Levine Verified
| Bloomberg Tax Verified
The way mergers-and-acquisitions regulation works in the US is that if you want to buy a biggish company, you need to ask the government for permission first. You fill out a form — called a “Hart-Scott-Rodino premerger notification filing” — and send it to the US Federal Trade Commission and Department of Justice, which will review it to see if your merger would create any antitrust problems. If the FTC and DOJ think it’s fine, then you can close your merger.
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Matt Levine’s Money Stuff: Banks Made a Lot of Money on Stocks Original

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By Matt Levine Verified
| Bloomberg Law Verified
Here are the three main ways for a big bank to make money from stock trading: • The bank’s clients want to trade stocks, so the bank helps them out, buying the stocks the clients want to sell, selling the stocks the clients want to buy and capturing some spread. This is called “market making” or “intermediation,” and tends to do best when markets are volatile. For one thing, when markets are volatile, clients are buying and selling a lot.
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