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Acquisitions serve as a powerful business strategy to enter new markets, add new products or technologies, or gain efficiency through scale. Several companies across the globe use M&A as a tool for growth. With key acquirers dominating the M&A market at present, significant deal volumes with high values are expected to continue well into 2023.

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The overall revenue of top 25 American companies increased by 18.0% compared to the year before with major growth driven by players in energy, information technology and health care industry.

Did you know combined the top 25 American companies generated more than $5 trillion in revenue in the last twelve months? Notably, that is approx. 30.8% of the U.S's Gross Domestic Product for 2021. for 2022.

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Did you know the U.S. Treasury yield curve is a commonly referred market indicator for a host of economic factors, including inflation, growth, and investor sentiment? Here’s the reason why -

Yield curve is a graph in which the yield of fixed-interest securities like U.S. government bonds is plotted against the length of time they have to run to maturity. It captures the perceived risks of bonds with various maturities to bond investors.

The U.S. Treasury Department issues bonds with maturities ranging from one month to 30 years. As bonds with longer maturities usually carry higher risk, such bonds have higher yields than bonds with shorter maturities. Due to this, a normal yield curve reflects increasing bond yields as maturity increases. A steepening curve typically signals expectations of stronger economic activity, higher inflation, and higher interest rates.

However, the yield curve can sometimes become flat or inverted. In a flat yield curve, short-term bonds have approximately the same yield as long-term bonds. An inverted yield curve reflects decreasing bond yields as maturity increases. Such yield curves are harbingers of an economic recession as it signals expectations of rate hikes in the near term and loss of confidence in the economy's growth outlook.