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posted by Fnord666 on Tuesday April 25 2017, @11:52PM   Printer-friendly
from the too-big-to-fail dept.

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


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  • (Score: 1, Flamebait) by jmorris on Wednesday April 26 2017, @12:40AM (5 children)

    by jmorris (4844) on Wednesday April 26 2017, @12:40AM (#499718)

    and two non-establishment party presidential candidates go head to head in France.

    Really? Yall going with that story of how to frame the French elections too? The guy is a Communist but already has the full throated backing of -every- establishment figure in France. Which isn't a shock or anything, how many Socialists has France elected already? And even Le Pen works hard to earn the Fascist label by being both Nationalist (mostly good) and Socialist (bad, echoes of that guy who must not be named when Socialism is paired with Nationalism). Face it, France is probably just too pozzed to live much longer.

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  • (Score: 2, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 26 2017, @01:04AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 26 2017, @01:04AM (#499735)

    Maybe you, or the "two non-establishment party presidential candidates", are talking about (Le Pen and) Melonchon, who ended 4th and so doesn't goes to the final round (Le Pen does)?

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emmanuel_Macron [wikipedia.org] is soooooooooooooo socialist. Yeah, worked for Rothschild & Cie Banque as investment banker, that makes him a commie. No doubt. /s

    Wake up! Another pro status quo guy, the guy of "business-friendly reforms" and "law package through a reluctant parliament using the special 49.3 procedure". Europe's Socialdemocrats, Socialists, Laborists and many others for the past decades are "INO", as USA's DINO/RINO. Socialists privaticing things, socialists lowering taxes for the rich, socialists looking to the other side when companies do as they want... yeah, "socialists". That explains why people is getting pissed. Changing the boss to keep the things as they are, kicking the general people and fattening the top people (remember, big companies are people too), is not a recipe for a happy wage slave. In 2008 there were many promises about recreating capitalism, cleaning up the banks and other shit. It was just shit for the newspapers and TV.

    BTW, Melonchon hasn't backed him yet.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 26 2017, @01:46AM (3 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 26 2017, @01:46AM (#499762)

    The guy is a Communist

    So he supports welfare programs?

    I haven't looked at that election at all personally because it's obvious Le Pen will win.

    • (Score: 1, Flamebait) by jmorris on Wednesday April 26 2017, @03:20AM (2 children)

      by jmorris (4844) on Wednesday April 26 2017, @03:20AM (#499818)

      No chance, Le Pen will get close to what she just got, might even manage to crack 1/3 of the vote if things really get whacky. I'd put money she doesn't get to half with all of the other candidates already having or soon to endorse the Communist. Her only hope is to get close enough to frighten the system into adopting a few of her positions to cut her future support. And no that won't happen so eventually she, or somebody far worse, will get elected. Just not this year.

      Yes the same forces that got BrExit and Trump a majority are at work in France, but they are so much more pozzed. They have been electing outright Socialists for decades already. Heck, by U.S. standards Le Pen herself is to the left of Bernie if you discount her one good idea of wanting to close the borders to the fricking head choppers.

      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 26 2017, @06:12AM

        by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 26 2017, @06:12AM (#499864)

        > Le Pen herself is to the left of Bernie if you discount her one good idea of wanting to close the borders

        And her denial of France's complicity in the holocaust. That's another great idea!

      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 26 2017, @08:09AM

        by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday April 26 2017, @08:09AM (#499897)

        Don't bother, jmorris and tmb are either total whack job idiot savants, massive trolls (non exclusive), or paid shills. Don't waste your typing unless it is for the benefit of the readers. Nearly every "fact based" comment they make gets rebutted with better info.

        They ways have the wrong idea about people places or things, and those wrong ideas are almost always rooted in their hatred for socialism or anything minutely resembling it. Point out all the socialism already in place and you usually just hear crickets.