Mergers and acquisitions are becoming ever more popular, with activity up 24% in the first two months of this year — after already growing 23% in 2010. Here’s how your portfolio can benefit from this trend.
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When companies use the word “immaterial” to describe errors or irregularities in their previously reported numbers, what they’re trying to say is that their mistakes involved such small amounts that they don’t really matter. To…
Oil giant BP (BP) believes that compensation claims related to the Gulf of Mexico oil disaster will be less than the $20 billion the company set aside to meet the claims, CEO Bob Dudley told analysts.
Dudley said “that given the current estimates of …