Deal Flow Predictor

The recently released IntraLinks Holdings Inc (NYSE: IL)'s Deal Flow Predictor (DFP) for 1H 2016 forecasts 3.5 percent growth in global deal announcements over the same period in 2015. That’s significant said Matt Porzio, vice president of M&A strategy and product maketing at IntraLinks,...

A little more than a month ago, December 16, 2015, the Federal Reserve raised interest rates for the first time in a decade. The hike went from a range of 0 percent to 0.25 percent to a range of 0.25 percent to 0.50 percent. Following a shaky start to the market at the beginning of the New Year,...

Q1 2016 globally announced M&A deals will show a modest 7 percent increase over Q1 2015. The majority of growth will be in consumer, healthcare, high technology and real estate. Uncertainty over interest rates in North America and economic slowdown in China are behind the modest growth....