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Thursday, November 7, 2013

Soros Gets a Little Lift from Startup Pick OpenTable

Today’s daily gainers are OpenTable Inc (NASDAQ:OPEN), Alliance One International, Inc. (NYSE:AOI), ING US Inc (NYSE:VOYA) and daily losers are BioFuel Energy Corp. (NASDAQ:BIOF), YY Inc (NASDAQ:YY), SandRidge Energy Inc. (NYSE:SD).
Soros wins with OpenTable

Today’s top gainer is OpenTable Inc (NASDAQ:OPEN), a company that provides restaurant reservation solutions around the world. The stock shot up +13.79%, reaching $80.90, after announcing better-than-expected Q3 earnings. Billionaire George Soros acquired 36,000 shares (0.02% of his fund) for $62.49 each last quarter.

The second company with a major gain is Alliance One International, Inc. (NYSE:AOI). The tobacco firm is up +7.90% to $3.14. Investor Seth Klarman holds more than 7.6 million shares after selling 500,000 shares last quarter. He paid an average price of $3.85 per asset.
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George Soros was born in Budapest, Hungary, in 1930. His father was taken prisoner during World War I and eventually fled from captivity in Russia to reunite with his family in Budapest. Soros was thirteen years old when Hitler's Wehrmacht seized Hungary and began deporting the country's Jews to extermination camps. In 1946, as the Soviet Union was taking control of the country, Soros attended a conference in the West and defected. He emigrated in 1947 to England, supported himself by working as a railroad porter and a restaurant waiter, graduated in 1952 from the London School of Economics, and obtained an entry-level position with an investment bank.

In 1956, Soros immigrated to the United States, working as a trader and analyst until 1963. During that time, he developed his own theory of markets called 'reflexivity', which he has laid out in his recent books THE ALCHEMY OF FINANCE and THE CREDIT CRISIS OF 2008 AND WHAT IT MEANS. In 1967 he helped establish an offshore investment fund; and in 1973 he set up a private investment firm that eventually evolved into the Quantum Fund, one of the first hedge funds, through which he accumulated a vast fortune.