Icahn’s Prediction Comes True

The legendary investor and Dell shareholder told an audience last week that the company’s board would postpone a vote on a buyout offer if it didn’t look like the vote would go its way.

July 22, 2013

Carl Icahn got it right.

Lost partly in his interview-slash-standup comedy act at the Delivering Alpha conference last Wednesday, the 77-year-old corporate raider-cum-hedge fund manager-cum investor warned that if the folks at PC maker Dell did not get enough votes the following day to approve the $13.65

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