Cramer Questions First Data Options Trades

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On today’s WALL STREET CONFIDENTIAL on TheStreet.Com, Jim Cramer noted the First Data (FDC) buyout.  He said the he was looking at the options contracts in the $27.50 and $30 calls, and he said there was no reason to buy those contracts unless you knew a deal was coming.  Those option buys were highly suspicious according to Cramer and he even said they were blatant.  He thinks this deal demonstrates that the stock market overall is undervalued if they are doing deals like this.  Cramer said as far as other names in the group, he still likes Mastercard (MA-NYSE) and Verifone (PAY-NYSE) in the transaction side of the business. 

Jon C. Ogg
April 2, 2007

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Douglas A. McIntyre is the co-founder, chief executive officer and editor in chief of 24/7 Wall St. and 24/7 Tempo. He has held these jobs since 2006.

McIntyre has written thousands of articles for 24/7 Wall St. He is an expert on corporate finance, the automotive industry, media companies and international finance. He has edited articles on national demographics, sports, personal income and travel.

His work has been quoted or mentioned in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, NBC News, Time, The New Yorker, HuffPost USA Today, Business Insider, Yahoo, AOL, MarketWatch, The Atlantic, Bloomberg, New York Post, Chicago Tribune, Forbes, The Guardian and many other major publications. McIntyre has been a guest on CNBC, the BBC and television and radio stations across the country.

A magna cum laude graduate of Harvard College, McIntyre also was president of The Harvard Advocate. Founded in 1866, the Advocate is the oldest college publication in the United States.

TheStreet.com, Comps.com and Edgar Online are some of the public companies for which McIntyre served on the board of directors. He was a Vicinity Corporation board member when the company was sold to Microsoft in 2002. He served on the audit committees of some of these companies.

McIntyre has been the CEO of FutureSource, a provider of trading terminals and news to commodities and futures traders. He was president of Switchboard, the online phone directory company. He served as chairman and CEO of On2 Technologies, the video compression company that provided video compression software for Adobe’s Flash. Google bought On2 in 2009.

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