There is some good economic news for 2011: merger and acquisition activity will rock.
Expect more of this acquisition activity, a trend we predicted late last year.
It was the ratio of stock prices to underlying values that led to the stepped-up acquisition activity.
Even though the expect a flurry of acquisition activity in the short-term.
We, at Teton Advisors, believe we are on the cusp of a multiyear wave in merger and acquisition activity.
In small-cap tech land, in particular, there have been a flurry of merger and acquisition activity to kick off the week.
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And now, five years after Enron's collapse, merger and acquisition activity in the electric power industry is really picking up steam.
The expected rise in acquisition activity comes as the euro has slipped 16.3% in the past year and 12.4% this year alone.
As has been the case elsewhere in Europe, the approach of the licence sale has prompted merger and acquisition activity among prospective bidders.
An avalanche of mergers and acquisition activity has cut that number to seven, with the four majors controlling most of the rail lines.
Meantime, the flurry of mergers and acquisition activity that began late last year and which launched the biotech sector into overdrive has slowed noticeably.
The energy sector continues to see merger and acquisition activity (See a previous discussion in Case Study: Buyouts Crystallize Value in the Market).
For Chase, the acquisition adds an equity-underwriting capacity in the fastest-growing part of the economy, which also accounts for much merger and acquisition activity.
Consequently, we stand to benefit from this renewed acquisition activity.
As a result, I am bringing my prediction forward and believe that we are now on the verge of a wave of mergers and acquisition activity emanating from China.
And I think - and maybe I'll be deported or something like this for saying this, Michel - by cutting the interest rates, he will encourage more merges and acquisition activity among private equity and hedge funds.
In our diversified micro cap GAMCO Westwood Mighty Mites Fund (WEMMX), merger and acquisition activity has also been robust, with six announced acquisitions of holdings in the September quarter joining the seven announced in the first half of the year.
South Korea is likely to see a pickup in merger-and-acquisition activity this year, as its cash-rich companies shop for overseas assets and as the government is expected to renew efforts to unload state-held stakes now that December's presidential election is over.
In the meantime, we expect most of the initial acquisition activity to be in smaller, less visible and less politically contentious deals where the negotiations between Chinese buyers and private sellers can be carried out under the radar and over a longer period of time.
Merrill's individual investors business, the Private Client Services division, won't hold back its stock price when investment banking firms like Goldman Sachs (nyse: GS - news - people ) and other institutional broker-dealers snapback amid a pickup in capital markets and merger and acquisition activity.
With an impressive global presence and a solid balance sheet, as well as an expertise in acquisition and development activity, DLR remains well poised for augmenting its top line in the quarters ahead.
Traders had shorted more than 103 million shares of Bank of America (nyse: BAC - news - people ) as of mid-December, indicating a frenzy of arbitrage activity prior to the closing of the bank's acquisition of MBNA (nyse: KRB - news - people ).
Traders had shorted more than 103 million shares of Bank of America as of mid-December, indicating a frenzy of arbitrage activity prior to the closing of the bank's acquisition of MBNA. Based on the number of shares shorted and Bank of America's average daily trading volume, it would take more than nine days to close out all those positions.
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