See: Takeover.
In a confusing turn of phrase, a reverse takeover really isn't the opposite of a takeover. It's just a specific type.
In a reverse takeover, a private company merges with a public company. The end result is that the private company gets to become a public company, while avoiding the long, complicated process of running an IPO.
An evil ghost wants a corporeal body. It could make a body by magically sewing together pieces of corpses and then inhabiting the finished product. Or it could just possess the body of someone already living. That's the basic logic behind a reverse takeover.
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Finance allah shmoop what is a bear raid So this
is a bear raid and this is a bear raid
And you knew you were going there Well i think
there's fraud fraud i tell you Well i think their
product just doesn't mean anything anymore Well i think that
with all those risk they're just trade me in it
too high a multiple Isn't the government going to regulate
them I thought that was a union coming in there
What are these people doing Are they rationally commenting on
honest things they actually believe are elements of the stock
No not at all In fact all of them shorted
the stock it's sixty bucks a share making the bet
that the stock would go down only now courtesy of
the wall street genius journalists being manipulated at the new
socialist times the group is spreading lies trickery and deceit
about stock prices Manipulating the market hoping to profit from
all the negative sentiment they've poured out there into the
ether making already nervous investors very nervous And it was
easy to get the journalist cooperate because well they hate
rich people Right All right Well if they covered it
thirty five that is unwound They're short position which started
at sixty bucks a share Well they'd have made twenty
five dollars a share in profits and that's totally illegal
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