Major Yahoo holder boosts stake as board meets to discuss options.
Capital World also has large Microsoft stake; Yahoo board discusses options
The move [to double holdings to 10% of shares] made Capital World Yahoo's largest institutional shareholder...it will also likely give the fund an even more powerful voice in the merger battle...Capital World [is]... the second largest institutional shareholder of Microsoft, with control of about 3% of the company's shares outstanding as of Dec. 31.
"That was smart," analyst David Hilal of Friedman, Billings, Ramsey & Co....I'm still of the belief that ...
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