In TheInformationWeek, Michael Singer mulls over the comments made by analyst Kaushik Roy, of Pacific Growth Equities, on a possibility that Cisco System Inc. might just love to buy storage king EMC. Singer said that according to the Reuters story posted on July 29, Roy’s comments were a reaction to options purchases, “roughly 217,000 calls traded in EMC compared to 57,000 puts in the first half of the session.” However, Cisco’s representative has quelled rumors of an EMC buyout, saying that it would be “highly unlikely” that the company would spend money on all of EMC.
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