M&A outlook from Deloitte

It goes without saying that the present financial debacle will make a huge impact on the market for deals. The following report states that no nation or industry will be spared. While this is certainly true, I believe that the micro-view will still expose a relatively large number of carefully thought-through deals. I believe that there are still some interesting acquisitions that can be made in the extraction, energy transmission, biotechnology, and semiconductor industries.

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