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The music won’t stop soon in media-telecom merger frenzy

22 June 2018Mergers & acquisitionsmergers & acquisitionsNick Dunbar

The AT&T Time Warner merger, and the battle between Comcast and Disney for Fox will prompt a vast amount of new borrowing. The spillover effects on other borrowers in the media and telecom sectors could be challenging.

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Takeovers and the UK stock market

14 May 2018Mergers & acquisitionsFTSE All-share, S&P 500, takeoversNick Dunbar

Being a takeover target has a dramatic effect on share price performance for UK stocks, in contrast to the US. What does this say about attitudes to foreign ownership?

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Credit

2 June 2017Markets, UncategorizedNick Dunbar

Visualise 10,000 corporate bonds issued by 2,000 companies

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