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Cash-Rich Companies Share the Wealth with Trillion-Dollar M&A Activity in 2011

{ Posted on Apr 18 2011 by Larry D. Spears }
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Mergers and acquisitions, or M&A activity, so far in 2011 has been a driving force in the stock market's positive performance. In fact, global M&A activity in the first quarter topped $799.8 billion, the most since ...Read More »

Stock Exchange Mergers: The Real Story

{ Posted on Mar 25 2011 by Martin Hutchinson }
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Categories : All, ASXF, CME, CXCHY, GDP, ICE, Martin Hutchinson, Mergers & Acquisitions, Money, Money Morning, NDAQ, NYX, SEC, SPXCY, Stock Exchange, Uncategorized
Stock exchange mergers are all the rage these days. The NYSE Euronext Group (NYSE: NYX) and Deutsche Boerse AG are attempting to merge and the London Stock Exchange Group PLC and TMX Group Inc. are also getting together. The ...Read More »

Deutsche Boerse/NYSE Mega-Merger More About Derivatives Than Stocks

{ Posted on Feb 15 2011 by Don Miller }
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Categories : All, Don Miller, Mergers & Acquisitions, Money, Money Morning, NYX, TMXGF, Top News, Uncategorized
The merger proposed yesterday (Tuesday) by Germany's Deutsche Boerse AG and NYSE Euronext Group (NYSE: NYX) will create the world's largest financial exchange. But most observers feel the deal is being driven more by the exploding ...Read More »

Deutsche Boerse/NYSE Mega-Merger More About Derivatives Than Stocks

{ Posted on Feb 15 2011 by Don Miller }
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Categories : All, Don Miller, Mergers & Acquisitions, Money, Money Morning, NYX, Top News, Uncategorized
The merger proposed yesterday (Tuesday) by Germany's Deutsche Boerse AG and NYSE Euronext Group (NYSE: NYX) will create the world's largest financial exchange. But most observers feel the deal is being driven more by the exploding ...Read More »

AOL Inc. (NYSE: AOL) Snags Huffington Post To Strengthen Pursuit of Online Media Content Crown

{ Posted on Feb 08 2011 by Kerri Shannon }
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Categories : All, AOL, Mergers & Acquisitions, Money, Money Morning, SCOR, TWX, YHOO
Internet company AOL Inc. (NYSE: AOL) announced late Sunday night it was buying liberal news Web site The Huffington Post to try to advance its reinvention as a top online media content provider. AOL will pay $315 million ...Read More »

M&A Frenzy Stays Hot With Pfizer’s $3.6 Billion Deal for King Pharmaceuticals

{ Posted on Oct 12 2010 by Ellen }
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Categories : All, GENZ, JNJ, KG, Mergers & Acquisitions, Money, Money Morning, PFE, Top News
The frenzy of activity in mergers and acquisitions (M&A) continued yesterday (Tuesday), when Pfizer Inc. (NYSE: PFE) agreed to pay $3.6 billion in cash to buy King Pharmaceuticals Inc. (NYSE: KG). Pfizer, the world's largest ...Read More »

International M&A Boom Fueled by Global Currency War

{ Posted on Oct 10 2010 by Don Miller }
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Categories : All, BK, C, GENZ, JNJ, Mergers & Acquisitions, Money, Money Morning, POT, SLW, WMT
A binge of mergers and acquisitions (M&A) is being fueled by the global currency war, which has increased the value of emerging market currencies. The value of worldwide M&A totaled $1.75 trillion during ...Read More »

Hot Stocks: Hewlett-Packard Continues its Business Makeover with ArcSight Acquisition

{ Posted on Sep 14 2010 by Don Miller }
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Categories : All, ARST, DELL, Don Miller, HPQ, INTC, Mergers & Acquisitions, MFE, Money, Money Morning, ORCL, PAR
Hewlett-Packard Co. (Nasdaq: HPQ) yesterday (Monday) took another step toward becoming a more diverse software-based company by agreeing to buy ArcSight Inc. (Nasdaq: ARST) for about $1.5 billion in cash. Palo ...Read More »

Let’s Make a Deal: How the Mergers-and-Acquisitions Boom Will Hurt the U.S. Economy

{ Posted on Aug 31 2010 by Martin Hutchinson }
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Categories : All, IMF, KFT, Martin Hutchinson, MCO, Mergers & Acquisitions, Money, Money Morning, POT
With its $39 billion hostile bid for Canada's Potash Corp. (NYSE: POT), mining giant BHP Billiton Ltd. (NYSE ADR: BHP) capped an active August in the mergers-and-acquisitions market. With the moribund growth prospects of the ...Read More »

HP, Dell Land In Pricey Bidding War as Tech Sector M&A Heats Up

{ Posted on Aug 26 2010 by Kerri Shannon }
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Categories : All, CML, CSCO, DELL, EMC, HPQ, IBM, Mergers & Acquisitions, Money, Money Morning, NTAP, ORCL, PAR, SEC
A rare technology sector bidding war raged on late Tuesday as data storage company 3Par Inc. (NYSE: PAR) announced it would start merger talks with Hewlett-Packard Co. (NYSE: HPQ), pressuring rival Dell Inc. (Nasdaq: DELL) to ...Read More »
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