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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;medoraman, post: 1258261, member: 26302&quot;]I was thinking more of the &quot;pop&quot; it gives to the owners of the acquired company, since M&amp;A almost always involves a premium to previous day&#039;s share price. It just seems the overall market benefits when more of these deals get put together, since many start looking for other takeover targets and start bidding up their stock. Even if its a stock swap, if you own a stock one day valued at $16, and tomorrow a deal is announced giving you $22 of a new stock, its still good movement, and positive movement at that.</p><p><br /></p><p>Btw, I am a firm believer that most M&amp;A activity benefits the acquired company much greater than the acquiring firm. A large acquisition announcement actually make me look at possibly divesting the acquiring firm, since many times the planned economies never materialize, and companies have a bad habit of overpaying usually.</p><p><br /></p><p>Chris</p><p><br /></p><p>Btw how this ties in to the OP question would be if the market can start generating more interest, I believe money that is either in cash or PM may become more interested.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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