Traders Bid Down Atmel While Company Takes Offers -08/14/15 at 2:02 PM CDTby Perry Rod

Today's trading in Atmel (NASDAQ:ATML) appears to be a case of impatient and distracted investment managers in a soft market abandoning a perfectly logical expected buyout scenario. Merger and arbitrage investors pushed up Atmel to a high of $10.50 on June 22 and have since abandoned their support for the stock, allowing an unusual opportunity for investo...