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Carlson Capital explains why the T-Mobile-Sprint merger may not happen

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Michelle deBoer-Jones
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Carlson Capital's Black Diamond Arbitrage Partners was up 1.63% net for the third quarter, bringing its return for the first nine months of the year to 4.33%. Merger arbitrage holdings contributed 214 basis points to the return, and 18 basis points came from special situations and other event-driven positions. As of the end of the third quarter, merger investments were 64% of the fund's long value.

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T-Mobile-Sprint merger could be blocked

Screenshot 24In his third-quarter letter to investors, which was reviewed by ValueWalk, Jesse Ho updated their position on the T-Mobile-Sprint merger.

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Michelle deBoer-Jones is editor-in-chief of Hedge Fund Alpha. She also writes comparative analyses of stocks for TipRanks and runs Providence Writing Services. Previously, she was a television news producer for eight years, producing the morning news programs for NBC affiliates in Evansville, Indiana and Huntsville, Alabama and spending a short time at the CBS affiliate in Huntsville.