Why the Yahoo Stock Price Dropped After New Activist Proposal Today

The Yahoo stock price is down after hedge fund investor Eric Jackson proposed a 99-page plan to unlock Yahoo shareholder value. Jackson wants Marissa Mayer fired and wants Yahoo to keep its failing Internet business. But larger shareholders want Mayer to sell off the Internet business, which may make it even more difficult to unlock value for Yahoo shareholders... Tags: (Nasdaq: YHOO) , Eric Jackson , SpringOwl , yahoo stock , yahoo stock price , YHOO Stock , YHOO Stock Price To get full access to all Money Morning content, click here About Money Morning: Money Morning gives you access to a team of ten market experts with more than 250 years of combined investing experience – for free . Our experts – who have appeared on FOXBusiness, CNBC, NPR, and BloombergTV – deliver daily investing tips and stock picks, provide analysis with actions to take, and answer your biggest market questions. Our goal is to help our millions of e-newsletter subscribers and Moneymorning.com visitors become smarter, more confident investors. Disclaimer: © 2015 Money Morning and Money Map Press. All Rights Reserved. Protected by copyright of the United States and international treaties. Any reproduction, copying, or redistribution (electronic or otherwise, including the world wide web), of content from this webpage, in whole or in part, is strictly prohibited without the express written permission of Money Morning. 16 W. Madison St. Baltimore, MD, 21201. The post Why the Yahoo Stock Price Dropped After New Activist Proposal Today appeared first on Money Morning - We Make Investing Profitable .