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Its gaining a pound or two every week. So, looking forward to 43 or 44 by Friday. :-))

Ftse up 1% shire down 1.25%. Gap between offer and current sp 23%

Allegedly the merger/takeover will take a good few months so the gap between current price (40) and the offer (49) will narrow down over the the coming weeks. Media says it will outperform ftse 100 in the coming months - of course it fkn will !! Its a got a fkn offer and is in the process of being taken over ... Bl00dy media stating that fkn obvious:-/

Down by 1%. Even with a firm offer of 48 + , it cant keep steady at �40. Shameful!! Any takers at 39 for something that someone is willing to pay 48 for??

Yes, and price is suppressed to silly level. Is there no demand for its shares when there is a very high chance of firm offer over the long weekend with a potential to make at least 20% profit??

Can't even spell now....lol...hear? Here!!

37 not far now....if that firm offer is made, there's a huge profit to be had hear. Flippin crazy!!!

What also worries me is if takeda says NO, sp may crash to pre offer silly price of �30 a couple of months ago when all other pharma co's were also trding at very low prices. For example HiK was around �9, GSK was �12 and AZN was at �47. They are all now at much higher prices of 13.4 , 14.5 and 52.2 respectively without any takover approach. I feel sry for shire :-/

The way it has drifted down to 38, make me wonder if firm offer will be forthcoming. Last day of trading tomorrow and then decision day. Also looking at the trades executed this morning, i can't understand why there are so many small buys/sells being automatically executed. How can they be making money considering broker fees etc...

What is wrong with this share? Few days to final offer of 49 and its drifting down 37? Madness!!

Offer need not be agreed to have the target company shares trading at almost the offer price. I will refer to sky sp again. Its sp has gained so much due to receiving offers that it is now trading at price higher than the latest offer

Its alright for some aint it... Sky received another offer and are currently trading above the offer price. And here we are, shire struggling to even touch the same tens as the offer

From same ft article... People involved in the talks said Mr Weber would probably face no major difficulty in securing loans from Japan’s three big banks, which had increasingly relied on acquisition-financing to earn fees in the country’s ultra-loose monetary environment. The acquisition would add Shire's lucrative rare diseases portfolio to Takeda's pipeline, which lacked major late-development experimental drugs and was grappling with patent expiries on its blockbuster drugs.

Safe to assume some may have bought in at the open this morning and are now nursing a loss of almost 5%. Crafty MMs always win :-/

Morning Scfc, i agree with most of it but would i approve buying shire if i was takeda share holder ? Yes i would. I read only a couple days ago that Takeda hardly has any drugs in the pipeline and their survival depends on aquiring some co like shire which has one of the most impressive pipelines in the business and would catapult takeda into the big league with guranteed survival.

Hi jjf, i thought takeda sp droping would mean the deal is going to go ahead. I would have been worried if their sp suddenly started gaining as that would mean no deal...but what do i know, i thought shire would blast away to mid 40s today and here we are nursing a negative price.

Is in red <---- lol This is just priceless...anyone wanna buy shares at 39 which will be worth 47 at the very leat on 8th may?? They come with the exta bonus chance of another bidder emerging also...

I doubt that very much. In absence of news it will remain above 39. In my opinion ofc!

Sry to hear Foxie...I'd avoid stop loss triggers during this decisive week. Manage manually. IMO.

May be a deliberste drop for friends and family to fill their boots before taking it back to 40 and beyond ?