Weekly Wrap
The week started quietly. The focus was, as in recent weeks, on mergers and acquisitions.
Deals this past week included Alltel going private for $27.5 billion, General Electric selling its plastics unit for $11.6 billion, Hologic buying Cytyc for $6.2 billion, a unit of Morgan Stanley buying Crescent Real Estate for $6.5 billion, Payless ShoeSource buying Stride Rite for $800 million, Coca-Cola buying Glaceau for $4.1 billion, and Nasdaq buying Nordic exchange OMX for $3.7 billion.
In addition, Tracinda Corp. expressed an interest in buying the Bellagio from MGM Mirage, China invested $3 billion in private equity fund Blackstone, and Alcan rejected Alcoa's takeover offer attempt amidst talk of a higher bid from BHP Billiton.
The liquidity theme topped the headlines and kept the gains from the recent rally intact. The S&P was up 2 points on Monday, down 1 point on Tuesday, and down 2 points on Wednesday.
Then the focus shifted abruptly on Thursday.
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posted by J. Kahn @ 8:03 AM
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1 Comments:
I have found that Wall Street analyst's correlate well with interest rates and not with stock performance. I have done some analysis and presented charts on the subject.
It seems to me that we will see the 10-yr treasury yields slightly above 5%.
Are the deals going to continue as rates climb?
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