Capital World Smell Money in Those Yahoo!s

Capital World Investors Has Doubled Its Position to 10.1%

Apr. 17, 2008 02:30 PM

Well, at least somebody in the Yahoo! spectacle is keeping their head.

Capital World Investors, Yahoo!’s biggest institutional investor, has doubled its position to 10.1% figuring there must be some money to be made out of the fact that Rupert has abandoned Jerry to team up with Steve to gang bang Jerry, who’s now sleeping with his worst enemy Eric, who – if the antitrust police catch them at it – can always claim he did it to help Steve out.

According to an SEC filing Thursday, Capital, a division of the Capital Group, increased its holdings from 5.2%.

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