Sentence examples for current mergers from inspiring English sources
But whereas the earlier foray was spurred by Japan's economic strength, the current mergers and acquisitions (M&A) deals stem from its torpor.
The current mergers, and the vogue for establishing separate media specialists, are intended not only to boost the media specialists' clout in bidding for space, but also to make it easier for them to invest in consumer research and in technology that tells advertisers what media mix is best for a brand.
Yet this week's profit warning from Raytheon is something that should make all sorts of businesses sit up and reflect on the current mergers boom, which in America is on course to top last year's record of $1.47 trillion.Normally something of a laggard when it comes to industrial trends, the arms makers have, thanks to the end of the cold war, this time been among the pacesetters.
When this does not hold, for example when sequencing the V6 region of 16S rRNA genes of bacterial samples [fragment sizes range between 110 and 130-bp (Gloor et al., 2010)] with read lengths of 150-bp (see case C in Fig. 1), current mergers will generate erroneous results.
Nevertheless, there are three ominous signs about the current merger boom.
In many ways, they say, that chaos may make the current merger with United Technologies more workable.
The total has skyrocketed from less than $1 trillion in 1995, when the current merger wave took off.
Assuming it continues, the current merger boom is still in its early stages, far from the excesses that characterized previous peaks.
The current merger between Entesa and BCI in Italy, for example, forces the other large banks there, such as Unicredito and San Paolo-IMI, to find deals of their own.
Mr. Schwarzman conceded that at some point, if the current merger boom continues to heat up, things might well get out of hand.
It was, after all, the deregulation of communications rules eight years ago that set off the current merger boom, especially a 1995 rule change that let networks and studios combine.
