Sentences with phrase «takeover activity»

Unlike the past couple of years, disappointing earnings are increasingly likely to result in takeover activity.

It goes without saying that we welcome takeover activity in any of our holdings.

We believe our ability to identify stocks trading well below private market value is particularly advantageous at a time like this, when takeover activity has been strong.

Market volatility through the first quarter led to a 20 % decline in takeover activity versus the same period a year earlier, and now regulators are flexing their muscles to hinder transactions that have already been announced that involve reducing taxes or competition.

U.S. stocks are taxiing towards a slightly higher opening today as airline takeover activity is set to give the transports a lift.

Consolidation, and speculation of more takeover activity, is a third — and more likely — factor at work in an industry where Australia retains its natural advantages.

Mr Irvin said he expected further consolidation in the sector to include both corporate takeover activity and acquisition of assets and infrastructure.

Today's headlines from OPEC, brokerage profits, and takeover activity will all get attention but stocks are looking for direction as a year of strong gains begins to wind down.

Mr Clarke said the announcements about the shift in Penfolds releases and the writedowns had no implications for any takeover activity and Treasury was getting on with the job of implementing `' the roadmap» of how any owner should be running the business.

Takeover activity has returned to the Australian market in a big way for the first time since 2011 as companies such as David Jones, Treasury Wine Estates and Australand find themselves in the sights of predators.

Takeover activity has returned to the Australian market in a big way for the first time since 2011 as predators circle companies such as David Jones, Treasury Wine and Australand.

To my mind, this was a satisfactory performance, especially against the background that TAVF's expense ratio was quite high in the first two years, and that from 1990 through much of 1993, the amount of merger and acquisition and takeover activity — potential bailout areas for much of the Fund's holdings — appeared to have been abnormally low.

In the late 1980s, high - yield bonds were generated by a few participants and heavily used to finance merger and takeover activities.