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The M&A Market: When This Number Falls, Expect the Takeovers to Heat Up
When the credit markets froze solid last year, equities hit the skids, the economy tanked and so did the number of announced mergers and acquisitions (M&A).
But now the stock market’s on the mend. In my book, a 49% rally off the bottom for the S&P 500 qualifies as healing.
The economy’s showing signs of improvement. First-time jobless claims have dropped more than 15% since peaking in April.
As for the M&A market, well, it’s still suffering…
Through the second quarter, volume dropped 40.2% worldwide. Deals involving U.S. companies fared worse, dropping 57.5%, according to Thomson Reuters. And July marked the first month in over…
13Aug2009 | Investment U | 0 comments | ContinuedU.S. Mergers & Acquisitions Market Remain Frozen
With the U.S. credit markets in lockdown mode, a whipsaw stock market that keeps anyone from getting too comfortable, a banking sector in chaos and a recession that clearly won’t be ending any time soon, U.S. dealmakers are looking at a market for mergers and acquisitions that’s in a virtual deep freeze.
And don’t expect that market to thaw out anytime soon. Even with the country’s energetic new president, Barack Obama, now ensconced in the White House, consumer and business confidence is virtually non-existent and worries continue to churn that the U.S. banking sector would endure a complete meltdown.
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