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It’s for the attempted merger of General Electric and Honeywell.

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Which one was more of a shock to you, personally? IMO, it was the Disney-Marvel merger.

Well, for me it’s the DC relaunch. When I heard about the Disney-Marvel merger, I figured that it was a shrewd business move for Marvel. The one thing that kept DC going in the 90s, even when the comic book industry was in its "bust years" — when Marvel was so in the red that they filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection — was the fact that they were a wholly-owned subsidiary of Warner Brothers (and have been since 1969). This didn’t cause any drastic change in DC’s characters or comic books. It just allowed WB to "cherry pick" the best intellectual properties from DC’s stable of characters when it came to movies and TV shows. When I first heard of the Disney/Marvel merger, my thoughts weren’t of Spider-Mouse, the Incredible Duck, or Snow White and the Seven Mutants. It was simply that Marvel had, like DC before it, hitched its wagon to a media giant. The publishing aspect remains largely uninterfered-with, although Marvel would get first crack at publishing adaptations of Disney-related works. It just meant that Disney/Buena Vista gets first dibs on media adaptations of Marvel characters (i.e. Cartoons, TV, and movies).

The DC relaunch seemed to catch me all the more offguard because of the sweeping change it represents line-wide and the lack of a "Crisis-type" event to serve as a "last hurrah" for the existing versions of the characters. Flashpoint, while the prelude to the relaunch, is simply an alternate-reality tale that will lead into the new status quo. Never before has one of the "Big Two" cancelled and relaunched its entire line. Even experiments like "Heroes Reborn" and "Crisis on Infinite Earths" left -some- of the status quo un-tampered-with. The thing that shocks me is just the whole uncertainty around the event. While there are big names linked to the obvious big-name books, the vast majority of the B-C-and-D-list characters seem to be starring in books that are lacking both big-name creative teams and compelling stories. I think the number of people who line up for Action Comics #1 by Grant Morrison or Superman #1 with George Perez, or Justice League of America #1 with Geoff Johns and Jim Lee is going to be significantly higher than those who pick up I, Vampire #1, Frankenstein, Agent of Shade #1, or Justice League Dark #1. I seriously think that by this time next year, several of the titles that don’t star one of the "usual suspects" will have gone the way of ‘Mazing Man and Wild Dog.

After a merger has been announced, subsequent cancellation generally causes the potential acquiree’s stock to decline in value?

True or False?

True

How were the NFL playoffs set up before the 2002 division merger?

To answer your question directly: 3 Division winners plus 3 wild card teams.

Tony has a lot of theories, but none are close. To start with, there weren’t 4 divisions pre-2002 so they couldn’t have 4 division winners. Secondly, the Houston Texans entered the league in 2002 bringing the total number of teams to 32 prompting the realignment of divisions. Moving from 3 to 4 created tighter rivalries and helped, with the exception of the NFC West, to ensure teams in the same division were close geographically. The NFL understands the ups and downs of teams and had no intent mixing up the playoff or super bowl participants.

A merger between Starbucks, Sunoco gas and oil, Bed bath and Beyond, Walmart and Krogers.
Would it become giant under one flag?
Well, not so diverse. Walamrt is also Sam’s club, which has gas stations. Starbucks is the biggest coffee chain out there.
Walmart also sells groceries, which aligned with Krogers would be huge.

Too diversified by the nature of the business to combine. Makes no sense at all.

d. Why would the FTC be concerned about an acquisition or a merger? Would this concern be an issue if a merger were in a perfectly competitive industry? How about in a monopolistically competitive industry? How about in an oligopolistic industry? Explain your answers.
thank you!

im doing my homework and i was having a hard time with this question!

By enforcing antitrust laws, the Federal Trade Commission helps to ensure that our markets are open and free. The FTC promotes healthy competition and challenges anticompetitive business practices to make sure that consumers have access to quality goods and services, and that businesses can compete on the merits of their work.

Many mergers benefit consumers by allowing firms to operate more efficiently. Other mergers, however, may result in higher prices, fewer choices, or lesser quality.

Would this concern be an issue if a merger were in a perfectly competitive industry? No, because there are many competitors with no single competitor able to dominate the market.

How about in a monopolistically competitive industry? How about in an oligopolistic industry? In both cases the FTC would have to carefully review the proposed merger. The FTC would challenge those that would likely lead to higher prices, fewer choices, or less innovation.

What are the best and worst of both airlines? What should they get rid of and what should they keep on each side?

No effect at all. We only fly American

The merger of state and corporate powers has been happening long before Obama and its not just one party guilty of it.
America is definitely not becoming a socialist government as socialism is egalitarianism and America is most definitely not guilty of that. Americans still believe health is a privilege and not a right. LOL

It is not becoming communist because communism is state controlled monopolies.

Everything about America right now screams Fascism.
Mussolini would be proud of what the USA has become.

no, it isn’t.

LETS SAY that a CEO had agreed to a merger with another company. But the Board of Directors had no knowledge of the deal. eventually they find out and pass a Vote of No-Confidence against the CEO would that void the merger?
and yes the CEO if also the majority owner (51%)

The CEO doesn’t have the power to agree to a merger alone, unless the CEO owns all the company’s shares of stock.