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Risk Is Back for Hedge Funds Chasing Glut of Mergers: Real M&A
2014-12-15 11:16:22| Biotech - Topix.net
Companies announced $2.8 trillion of acquisitions, making 2014 the busiest year since before the financial crisis. Unprecedented amounts of money were spent in some industries, such as pharmaceuticals, and the transactions skewed larger than at any other time this century, according to data compiled by Bloomberg.
Milk Glut Spurs Slump in Win for U.S. Butter Eaters: Commodities
2014-12-12 04:20:55| Food - Topix.net
Milk is flowing like never before in the U.S., where dairies have expanded output enough to send wholesale prices plunging from an all-time high in September. Production in the 12 months through October reached 17.08 billion pounds a month on average, up 1.8 percent from the same period a year earlier, as farmers took advantage of high milk prices and low livestock-feed costs, government data show.
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US Getting Rid of Oil Addiction as Price Plummets in Glut
2014-12-12 00:47:50| Energy - Topix.net
The U.S. is producing the most oil in 31 years, economic growth is picking up and crude prices are plunging. So why is Americans' use of petroleum waning? As the U.S. moves closer and closer to energy independence, greater fuel efficiency, changing demographics and an increase in renewables are altering the dynamic that in the past would have seen demand for gasoline climbing.
Japan steelmakers may boost exports on weak home demand, adding to glut
2014-10-31 11:41:20| Steel - Topix.net
Japan's top steelmakers reported higher first-half earnings this week, but slowing demand and bloated stockpiles could push them to sell more overseas, adding to a global glut that has dragged Asian prices to five-year lows. Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's sales tax hike in April has hit economic growth and consumer spending harder than expected, hurting sales in two sectors important for steelmakers, automotive and construction.
After Fukushima, Japan gets green boom _ and glut
2014-10-30 10:28:32| Telecom - Topix.net
This undated aerial photo released by Softbank Corp. shows the Japanese telecommunications and Internet company's Tottori-Yonago Solar Park which started commercial operation on Feb. 1, 2014 in Yonago, Tottori Prefecture, western Japan. Softbank Corp., which has bought Sprint Corp. of the U.S., moved into the solar business after the Fukushima crisis.
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