An unnamed Wall Street trader made a profit of approximately $ 2.5million on earlier this week thanks to a tweet from the Wall Street Journal . The trader purchased 315,800 shares of chipmaker Altera one minute after the Journal reported Intel was in talks to purchase them . The shares were sold to the trader at $ 36 , and just 28 minutes later , when the market closed , shares were selling for $ 44.39 . Intel 's reported purchase of Altera still has yet to happen , and the news has actually caused the price of Intel shares to fall .
An unnamed Wall Street trader made a profit of approximately $ 2.5million on Friday thanks to a tweet from the Wall Street Journal . The trader purchased 315,800 shares of chipmaker Altera one minute after the Journal reported Intel was in talks to purchase them . The shares were sold to the trader at $ 36 , and just 28 minutes later , when the market closed , shares were selling for $ 44.39 . Intel 's reported purchase of Altera still has yet to happen , and the news has actually caused the price of Intel shares to fall .