Takeovers wouldn't cause the stock market to rise unless there is an upward reassessment of earnings (potential). People are more optimistic and confident about the future. Lawrence Summers
Business chief executive officers and their boards succumb to the pressures of the financial markets and their fears of takeovers and pour out their energies to produce quarterly earnings - at the expense of building their companies for the long term. J. Irwin Miller
After SEBI move to review Chinese FPI investments, Government tweaks FDI policy to prevent hostile takeovers of Indian companies in current times. Source: Internet
An additional problem is that takeovers often require loans provided by banks in order to service the offer, but banks are often less willing to back a hostile bidder because of the relative lack of target information which is available to them. Source: Internet
Hostile takeovers seeAlso A "hostile takeover" allows a bidder to take over a target company whose management is unwilling to agree to a merger or takeover. Source: Internet
After a decade of mergers and takeovers, there's not much competition left in the US airline business. Source: Internet