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The Coming Takeover Boom: 3 Sectors Ripe for Mergers & Acquisitions

On Monday, $24.8 billion worth of takeovers were announced. It was the third busiest Merger Monday on record in 2009. Yet most investors remain unimpressed….

They’re convinced it’s nothing more than a short-lived Darwinian event. Weak and unfit companies, exposed by a nasty recession, are simply being forced into the arms of the strong. Or as Jack Ablin, Chief Investment Officer at Harris Private Bank puts it, “A lot of these deals are motivated by self-defense.”

But they’re wrong.

Even though this Monday wouldn’t even make the cut for the top 20 deal days during the last takeover boom (in 2007), it’s more…

23Apr2009 | Investment U | 0 comments | Continued
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