Are we entering another era of mergers and acquisitions?

[Dazey]

In the 1990s, all sorts of mergers and acquisitions ensued. Big companies bought smaller ones or merged with just as big companies to stay one step ahead in the game. Smaller companies allowed themselves to be sold to remain competitive.

Look just in the past month:

Verizon bought AOL for 4.4 billion
Charter House Time Warner Cable for 78 billion.
AT&T plans to merge with DirectTV

Maybe these are just three isolated incidents, but could we be entering another '90s esque age of mergers and acquisitions?

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We'll probably see it amongst the energy industries. Renewables will eat each other to withstand competition from China (and to gobble up patent rights), oil wants to withstand the current chaos and the entire coal industry (a dead man walking, unless the government starts artificially propping it up) will probably be sold as garbage stock soon.