Wednesday, June 25, 2008

Now may be a good time to think of M&A

June 25 - FT.com (U.K.) - Now might not seem the best of times to be thinking about mergers and acquisitions. In a slowing economy where the full effects of the credit crisis have yet to be felt, most executives will probably feel they have other things to worry about than adding to their empires.

Yet in retrospect, 2008 may turn out to be the best period for deals for some time to come.

Conventional wisdom suggests the opposite. In an uncertain market, companies have a hard enough time predicting their own performance, let alone that of potential takeover targets. Read More.

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