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FIS. Averaging down. A smaller position that I plan to make larger. Seeking advice about whether and how to attempt to anticipate tax-loss selling (share price > -20% YTD): should one expect the rate of selling to increase substantially toward the end of the year? or would that process typically already be well underway?

Thank you very much, irnovo. I appreciate your calling attention to debt and dividend cut as current concerns of investors. I will plan to start a new topic for Grifols in order not to interrupt "What are you buying today?" any further.

A timely recommendation: Per Reuters 11/15 Deals of the day: ** KKR & Co Inc and Global Infrastructure Partners (GIP) will take U.S. data center operator CyrusOne Inc private for $11.49 billion in cash, the latest deal in a sector that has boomed during the COVID-19 pandemic. ** American Tower Corp agreed to buy U.S. data center operator CoreSite Realty Corp for $7.51 billion in cash to tap into a sector that has seen a boom in demand during the COVID-19 pandemic.

I would appreciate any additional thoughts on Grifols, irnovo. For several weeks I have been waiting to start a position--and on many of those days the stock has made a new low. The Biotest acquisition certainly seems attractive.

I should also have included [ Bitfinex'ed (@Bitfinexed) / Twitter ], who has been at the forefront of calls for transparency from Tether--and whose allegations have now been confirmed as serious and substantive by a series of regulatory actions.

For those interested in the set of concerns that are focused on Tether, I would recommend the work of [ Cas “Mildly Interesting” Piancey (@CasPiancey) / Twitter ] and [ Bennett Tomlin (@BennettTomlin) / Twitter ] at [ Crypto Critics' Corner (@CryptoCriticPod) / Twitter ]. Protos Media, which appears to be one of the few outlets not beholden to the crypto industry and its promoters, has recently released a report, "The Tether Papers", which is discussed further in a recent CCC podcast: Episode 34 – The Tether Papers (featuring David Canellis of Protos Media) – Crypto Critics' Corner (cryptocriticscorner.com) . In all, control of crypto initiatives--including DeFi--appears to be far more centralized than advertised. Per [ Goddamn Forking Stablecoins – Bennett's Blog (bennettftomlin.com) ]: "The more economic activity that depends directly or indirectly on stablecoins[, such as Tether,] the more influence that stablecoins have over the governance, and right now there is significant economic activity that depends on stablecoins."