Twitter Inc. jumped and Walt Disney Co. shares slumped in Monday trading after Bloomberg reported that the entertainment giant was considering a bid for the social network. Twitter stock soared Friday after a report that the San Francisco company was considering acquisition bids, with potential buyers identified as tech giants like Salesforce.com Inc. and Alphabet Inc. . Disney has also been mentioned as a potential buyer: BTIG analyst Rich Greenfield said, “We continue to believe Disney should have interest [in acquiring Twitter],” but noted that Twitter’s losses would have a dilutive effect on Disney. Twitter stock was suffering Monday after a downgrade from Oppenheimer, but jumped from a loss of more than 3% to a gain of about 1% after the report hit; Disney shares immediately fell from more than $92 to less than $91.50.
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