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ALI VELSHI, CNNfn ANCHOR, YOUR MONEY: VELSHI: Well, earlier this week, the health insurer, UnitedHealth [Company: UnitedHealth Group Inc.; Ticker: UNH; URL: http://www.uhc.com/], announced that it will buy Oxford Health Plans [Company: Oxford Health Plans Inc.; Ticker: OHP; URL: http:/www.oxhp.com/]for about $5 billion. Shares of Oxford went up on the news, those of United Health Care slumped.

So if you hold stock of a company that might be headed for merger and acquisition, what should your plan of action be?

Here with some advice is Roger Aguinaldo. He`s the CEO and publisher of "The M&A Adviser."

Roger, good to see you again.

ROGER AGUINALDO, CEO AND PUBLISHER, "THE M&A ADVISER": Thanks, Ali.

VELSHI: We had the United Health Care Oxford, we had the Disney [Company: The Walt Disney Company; Ticker: DIS; URL: http://www.disney.com/]- Comcast [Company: Comcast Corporation; Ticker: CMCSK; URL: http://www.comcast.com/] deal fall apart, and we have tons of questions about this. People think it`s a great way to make money, because often the company being acquired is acquired for a price substantially higher than where it`s trading, 10, 15, 20 percent, even more sometimes. And a...

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