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acquiring a company that has a particular product line or customer base will heighten its position in the market.
As of July 2014, the market cap for American Express Company (AXP) is $98,609,076,056.70.
a market failure
Yes, it's true.
As of July 2014, the market cap for American States Water Company (AWR) is $1,218,423,863.36.
As of July 2014, the market cap for American National Insurance Company (ANAT) is $3,005,874,178.72.
The 1990s were marked by a series of massive mergers in the sanitary products market. The trend was started by the 1995 merger of Kimberly-Clark Corporation and Scott Paper Company.
The company that has the acronym HES on the American stock market is the Hess Corporation. The Hess Corporation is an oil company. The Hess Corporation headquarters is in New York City.
1)Horizontal mergers: The consolidation of firms that are direct rivals--i.e. firms that sell substitutable products or services within the same geographic market. 2)Vertical Mergers: The consolidation of firms that have potential or actual buyer-seller relationships. 3)Conglomerate Mergers: Consolidated firms may share marketing and distribution channels and perhaps production processes; or they may be wholly unrelated. 4)Congeneric mergers occur where two merging firms are in the same general industry, but they have no mutual buyer/customer or supplier relationship, such as a merger between a bank and a leasing company. Example: Prudential's acquisition of Bache & Company.
As of July 2014, the market cap for American Equity Investment Life Holding Company (AEL) is $1,743,059,487.75.
externality is a type of market failure
market failure can occur when there is no money left to keep it running