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Populism is on the rise across the world as President Donald Trump works to enact America-first policies, the British craft a formal exit strategy from the European Union, and two non-establishment party presidential candidates go head to head in France. But that isn't scaring corporate dealmakers in the U.S. who say more M&A opportunities are on the horizon and global politics isn't impacting their strategies.
With the U.S. seeing the second highest first-quarter deal activity in a decade (up 22% to $366 billion from last year), nearly 80% of U.S. executives say they plan to actively pursue mergers and acquisitions over the next year. That's well above the long-term average of 47%, according to new data from EY's bi-annual Global Capital Confidence Barometer, which surveys 2,300 corporate executives.
Source: Fox News
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 26 2017, @06:04AM
I haven't heard anything about TPP or whatever its next incarnation is meant to be. I know that with Mexico we have the upper hand in negotiations by far, and that the same goes for Canada.
That's some trumpian zero-sum delusionalism.
The "upper hand" doesn't mean jackshit when you can't walk away because walking away means losing hundreds of billions of dollars.
If trump tries that brinksmanship his bluff will be called. He can't afford to fuck over the farmers in the heartland, but they are the ones who will immediately lose out because they depend on exporting their crops. [agfax.com]