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...timing could not have been worse for Merck, whose sales last year grew a paltry 5%, compared with 23% in 2000, and whose big anticholesterol drug Zocor will lose patent protection in 2006, with nothing to replace it. Some analysts wondered whether the company was ripe for a merger--an idea Merck executives have steadfastly rejected. "Without a deal, Merck cannot grow," says Richard Evans, a senior analyst with Sanford C. Bernstein & Co. "In fact it may get smaller...
...cease-fire; they had already made common cause with Osama bin Laden in Afghanistan and had, to all practical purposes, essentially merged their organizations. That alone would be enough to make Egyptian Islamic Jihad the more likely suspect - which is the same as saying al-Qaeda, given the 1998 merger which formalized Zawahiri's status as Bin Laden's Number 2. Indeed, many al-Qaeda watches argue that far from simply subordinating themselves to the leadership of the charismatic Saudi, the veterans of Egyptian Islamic Jihad who made common cause with Bin Laden in Afghanistan during the 1990s actually became...
...Number of films the group will own after the merger?40% of all Hollywood movies ever produced
While the jury is still out on how consolidation will affect consumers, it's clear that merger mania means opportunity for stock pickers savvy enough to bet on the next bank to get scooped up. When word of a takeover gets out, shareholders almost always see a pop in stock price. "Who is the next to go? That's the million-dollar question," says John McCune, research director at SNL Financial in Charlottesville...
...stopgap deal agreed to by owners last Friday aims to keep the two leagues separate for a year and delays the team merger, thereby averting a strike for at least another week. But few deny that Japanese baseball is ailing. Most teams, which exist primarily to advertise their corporate owners' name, are losing money, and fans are being drawn away by other sports, like football. Television ratings of the nation's top team, the Yomiuri Giants, have dropped 38% in the past five years, and the league's best players have defected to the U.S. Owners say austerity measures such...