Lol. I was part of the core deal team. We did NOT know this would be the day for months and months.
But of course, that does not detract from your sentiment being 100% accurate. No one planned the timing of the consummation of the deal around random contemporaneous news events.
This was certainly not news on the aol side internally at least... Yahoo publicly disclosed in their SEC filings, so it wasn't even a leak or the rumour mill
But of course, that does not detract from your sentiment being 100% accurate. No one planned the timing of the consummation of the deal around random contemporaneous news events.