The phrase "acquisitions was down" is not correct in standard English due to subject-verb agreement; it should be "acquisitions were down." You can use it when discussing a decrease in the number of acquisitions in a business or financial context.
Example: "In the last quarter, acquisitions were down compared to the previous year, indicating a potential slowdown in market activity."
Alternatives: "acquisitions decreased" or "acquisitions declined."
Morgan Stanley's advisory business, which includes mergers and acquisitions, was down 44percentt for the second quarter, and revenues from stock underwriting declined 5percentt from what was a weak quarter last year.
Morgan Stanley's revenue from investment banking fell 30percentt from a year ago, to $675 million, and its revenue from advising companies on mergers and acquisitions was down 35percentto to $292 million.
Spending on mergers and acquisitions was down 75% this year through September compared with the same period last year, according to Digi-Capital.
Global mergers and acquisitions are down sharply, with 2,879 announced deals so far this year, worth a total of $119 billion.
The sharp fall in Goldman's revenues in the fourth quarter was the result of a 10% fall in the investment banking area – where fees from advising on mergers and acquisitions were down – and a 31% fall in revenue from fixed income, currency and commodities, where anxiety about a sovereign debt crisis in Europe may have held back activity.
Revenue (minus divestitures and acquisitions) is down 4.5percentt from the first quarter of 2016.
In a year when the value of venture-backed mergers and acquisitions were down 51percentt, M&A activity in the publishing industry was down even more.
In the first quarter of 2012, mergers and acquisition activity was down 34 percent worldwide to $481 billion.
In time, it might turn the tide in mergers and acquisitions, where revenue was down 33 percent, to 114 million Swiss francs, year over year.
That was down from 174 acquisitions worth $30.8 billion in the year-earlier period.
There were 59 venture-backed acquisitions in the second quarter, which was down from 84 deals a year ago (and 62 deals in the previous quarter).
