Mergers and Acquisitions

Mergers and Acquisitions Articles

Shares of Twitter traded up sharply Wednesday afternoon following comments by the company co-founder that seemed to encourage the idea that Twitter might be for sale.
Shares of First Cash Financial Services and Cash America International were dragging their feet on Wednesday after the companies announced the shareholder approval of their merger.
In a new research report, Baird notes two biotech companies in its research coverage universe that may be considered speculative takeover targets, and a third is a possible target as well.
Potash Corp. of Saskatchewan and Agrium have confirmed that they are in preliminary discussions regarding a merger of equals.
St. Jude Medical has issued a press release aimed at responding to points in the Muddy Waters report, and a Credit Suisse research report has dispelled some of the concerns.
Rackspace Hosting said Friday morning that it has agreed to be acquired for more than $4 billion by affiliates of private equity firm Apollo Global Management .
In one of the longest running bidding wars in recent times, Pfizer has finally reeled in cancer-drug maker Medivation.
Medivation has been among the top future biotech mergers for quite some time. The problem is that we still have no idea which company will buy Medivation, nor do we know what price.
SunEdison Semiconductor watched its shares rise handily in Thursday's session following the announcement of an acquisition by GlobalWafers.
The trouble is relentless across the brick-and-mortar retail world. Malls are closing or downsizing. At least six large retailers will have to merge, almost certainly in some combination with one...
Wal-Mart Stores is scheduled to release its most recent earnings report before the markets open on Thursday.
Hewlett Packard Enterprise is going to acquire Silicon Graphics to extend its growth in big data analytics and in high performance computing.
Netherlands-based Randstad said Tuesday morning that it has agreed to acquire online job board Monster Worldwide for almost $430 million in cash.
Shares of SolarCity were on the rise ahead of its earnings after Elon Musk and Tesla Motors announced their intentions to acquire the company.
To compete against the huge and powerful marketing machine of Amazon Prime, Wal-Mart needs a large branded streaming video service.