LSE outbid Markit, a financial-information firm, to clinch the deal, making up for a failed merger with TMX, a Canadian bourse, earlier this year.

伦敦证券交易所以高价胜出一家名叫Markit的金融信息公司，最终成交。这弥补了其今年初未能成功与一家加拿大证券交易所TMX并购的遗憾。

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Every Monday seems to bring news of a mega-merger; on December 4th, it was the combination of Bank of new York and Mellon Financial (see article).

每个星期一似乎都会有大规模合并的新闻，12月4日发生的则是纽约银行和Mellon金融的合并(见文章)。

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Some mergers fail because they are put together by financial experts, not by the operations folks who actually have to execute the merger plan.

一些兼并失败，因为他们放在一起，由金融专家，而不是由业务乡亲究竟是谁已执行合并计划。

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It is also the largest-ever transatlantic financial services merger.

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Brad Hintz, an analyst at Sanford Bernstein, calculates a potential hit of 28% to Bear Stearns' 2008 earnings per share if income from fixed-income trading falls 20%, financial sponsor merger and acquisition dries up and it sees a 35% reduction in below-investment grade loans.

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These companies are especially attractive given inefficiencies created by recent market volatility and reduced sell side research coverage in the wake of financial services industry merger activity.

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