Tag: the-financial
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Worldwide M&A activity falls 23 pct, but U.S. has a flurry
Worldwide mergers and acquisitions deals have fallen 23 percent to $336 billion so far this year compared with last year, but cross-border activity by amount targeting U.S.-based companies reached a record high, Thomson Reuters data shows. After hitting a record high by deals value in 2015, worldwide M&A activity has been hurt this year by…
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Wall Street veterans say rate-hike past is not prologue for markets
By Trevor Hunnicutt NEW YORK (Reuters) – It has only been six years since the U.S. stock market rout brought on by the financial crisis, but as far as Deena Katz's clients are concerned, that might as well be ancient history. “People have a thirty-second memory,” said Katz, 65, co-chairman at Evensky & Katz/Foldes Financial…