Another example that rumors are worth serious money

Rumors are powerful weapons.

A few weeks ago, Habré was mentioned that Samsung received a serious shock as a result of the spread on the Internet, it is not clear where the undertaking took place that Apple placed a large order for the production of RAM from the company Elpida, close to bankruptcy. This circumstance led to the fact that Samsung’s market capitalization at once sank by a significant amount for the Korean giant - $ 10 billion.

Against the background of last Friday’s news that Facebook intends to acquire the Norwegian browser maker Opera Software, Opera’s shares, which have a total market value of about $ 700 million, immediately took off in price by more than a quarter - by 26%. In fact, it turned out that market rumors (if Mark Zuckerberg buys everything for unbelievable money, why not buy a well-known browser to get rid of Google on its field?) Led to the most significant improvement in Opera, whose shares are traded on the stock exchange since 2004.
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Since that time, Opera has received a total audience of 270 million people, released the most popular browser in the world for mobile devices, added unusual tools like Unite to its desktop browser and has already promised to remove it, but the company managed to achieve such an increase in its market value due to unconfirmed nothing of hearing.

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