Wall Street's Designs on '05? A Boom in Merger Activity
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Corporate America has finally gotten a bit of swagger back in its step after years of self-doubt and housecleaning in the wake of Enron.
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Irregular hors d'ouevres, scheduling mishaps, and the stockbroker's eternal dilemma.
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There may be a growing pack of billionaires with designs on acquiring Dow Jones.
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Rumors of a merger make a Foolish investor look brilliant.
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Market-focused Wall Street banks explode.
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Five weeks into the new year, the merger juggernaut is at full tilt. The biggest deals weigh in at tens of billions of dollars and unite companies that are household names: Gillette and Procter &amp; Gamble . AT&amp;T and SBC Communications . Travelers Life &amp; Annuity and MetLife .
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With a series of blockbuster deals bringing merger activity to levels not seen in years, M&amp;A bankers finally are regaining some of the swagger they lost when the boom of the late 1990s went bust.
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The past five years have become known as the "golden age of private equity," with easy credit fueling multibillion-dollar corporate takeovers, a seemingly endless stream of old-line U.S. companies like Chrysler and Burger King being scooped up by private-equity firms, and the minting of a cadre o...
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NEW YORK -- Wall Street's fourth-quarter rally gave stock mutual funds a solid performance for 2004, with small-cap equity funds and real estate funds scoring some of the biggest returns. Large-cap growth equities and technology-focused funds had the slimmest gains.
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The huge corporate reorganization of the Royal Dutch/Shell Group is one of the year&#39;s largest financial transactions. But is it really a merger?
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NEW YORK  -  When cellphone giants Sprint and Nextel merged in 2005, investors had a lot of hope for the combined company.
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THESTREET.COM, the financial news and commentary internet site, has emerged as a takeover target. TheStreet.comâs shares, after enduring three tepid years on Americaâs tech-laden Nasdaq
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The Motley Fool - Why was the merger between AOL and Time Warner (NYSE: TWX - News) such a debacle? Nina Munk answers this question in her book Fools Rush In. Munk is interested primarily in the people behind the deal that would eventually destroy billions of dollars of shareholder value.
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With merger and acquisition fever said to be waning, which deals will be the ones to work out?
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These are good times for diversified  U.S. manufacturers. So why aren&#039;t they doing more big mergers  and acquisitions?
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A look back at the telltale signs of one company's meteoric rise.
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Five companies with the urge to merge; which deals will be the ones to work out?