Merger Mania

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Definition of 'Merger Mania'

A period of time with significant merger and acquisition activity in the corporate world. While merger mania can refer to merger and acquisition activity in general, it often refers to increased merger and acquisition activity within a certain industry, such as with the airline or telephone company industries.
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Investopedia explains 'Merger Mania'

Mergers and acquisitions are corporate strategies that include the buying, selling and combining different companies. Companies seeking increased market share may aggressively merge with or acquire other companies. When mergers and acquisitions occur within a short period of time, the resulting business transactions can be referred to as merger mania.

Ivan Boesky, famous for the insider trading scandal that rocked Wall Street, authored a book entitled "Merger Mania: Arbitrage: Wall Street's Best Kept Money-Making Secret", that was published in 1985.
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'Merger Mania'

  • Banking On Merger Mania

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    ... Banking On Merger Mania. ... Bottom Line With cheap stock valuations and large
    cash hordes, merger mania has returned to the markets. ...

  • Fertilizer Wars Come To An End

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    The silver lining for investors is that all the merger mania suggests
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  • Profiting From The Deal Boom

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    ... the deal offer price and the current stock price, The Credit Suisse Merger Arbitrage
    Liquid Index ETN (NYSE:CSMA) allows investors to play merger mania. ...

  • Apache Petroleum Bets On The Offshore

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    ... Merger-Mania In April 2010, Apache Corporation announced a merger with Mariner Energy
    (NYSE:ME) for a combination of stock and cash, in a deal worth $2.7 ...

  • A Review Of The Drug Makers Of 2009

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    ... Email. Merger Mania In the first three months of 2009, three huge drug mergers,
    worth an estimated $155.8 billion, took place. The ...

  • Comerica Gets Bigger - But "Better" Has To Wait

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    ... land-grab this year. (For more, see Banking On Merger Mania and Different
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  • 2010: A Look Back At Agriculture Stocks

    http://stocks.investopedia.com/stock-analysis/2010/Dec-A-Look-Back-At-Agriculture-POT-BHP-CF-MOS1208.aspx
    ... Merger Mania The biggest story in agriculture in 2010 was most likely the attempted
    hostile takeover of Potash (NYSE:POT) by Australia's BHP Billiton (NYSE:BHP ...

  • Buyout Buzz

    http://stocks.investopedia.com/stock-analysis/2010/Buyout-Buzz-LUV-AAI-JBLU-HNR0929.aspx
    ... Low Cost Mega Deal Southwest Airlines (NYSE:LUV), one of the more successful airlines
    operating in the US today, kept the merger mania going with its ...

  • BMO Buying Marshall & Illsley

    http://stocks.investopedia.com/stock-analysis/2010/BMO-Buying-Marshall--Illsley-BMO-MI-MTB-RF-SNV-CMA-ZION1217.aspx
    ... into hot real estate markets like Arizona and Florida. (For more, see Banking
    Merger Mania.). That BMO saw so much bad debt on the ...

  • Where The M&A Action Is, And What's Next

    http://stocks.investopedia.com/stock-analysis/2010/Where-The-MA-Action-Is-And-Whats-Next-APWR-GMXR-ARTG-ORCL-ADBE-AAPL-NU-NST1115.aspx
    ... Once merger mania in a sector gathers momentum, it tends to stay in motion
    for a while. Ergo, if one was mulling a new stake in ...

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