Business news for Mon, 17 Dec 2007 & with words groups+record. 1 news.

After notching a record $2.7 trillion of mergers and acquisitions worldwide in the first half of 2007, cooler heads — or at sentiments — are now prevailing. Nine percent of dealmakers are calling the M&A environment “excellent,” versus 49 percent in midyear, according to research from the Association for Corporate Growth and Thomson Financial. The groups’ biannual [...]