Sentence examples for peak merger from inspiring English sources

The Airtours-First Choice decision also came at a time of peak merger activity.

We propose a robust formant extraction algorithm that combines the spectral peak picking, formants location examining for peak merger checking, and the root extraction methods.

The spectral peak picking method is employed to locate the formant candidates, and the root extraction is used for solving the peak merger problem.

The location and the distance between the extracted formants are also utilized to efficiently find out suspected peak mergers.

The difference between an offer price and the target company's previous share price is averaging around 20%, compared with 35-40% at past peaks of merger activity, he says.

That is a little over half the deal volume of the first quarter of 2007 (which was nearly the peak of mergers activity), but deal-makers say they do not expect to reach those levels for some time.

Struck at the peak of the merger boom in October 2007, the company has suffered from low natural gas prices and too much debt, and could be forced to restructure this year.

Based on Friday's closing price of $49.19 a share, Bank of America's stock has fallen 35percentt from its post-merger peak of $75.50 a share in July 1999.

Indeed, several lawsuits claim that AOL was not merely a brilliant deal-maker; it may literally have stolen Time Warner.To secure its prize, AOL offered a premium of almost $50 for Time Warner's stock, then trading at $65. Nearly three years later, and two years after the deal closed on January 11th 2001, shares of the now combined firms trade for 90% less than at their pre-merger peak.

That is still less than half the annual peak during the last merger wave, in the late 1990s, but Booz and others say this is only the beginning.

The latter would naturally elicit more negative responses because staff would likely compare their current experiences to the transient peak of job satisfaction prior to merger.