Todays Merger News Jan 09, 2013

[FLYUSAIRWAYS]

American Airlines Readies for US Airways Merger - Stocks To Watch - Barrons.com
Coming soon to an airport near you.....

 

[signals]

Merger Overload! Speculation and Kool-Aid drinking run deep.

To merge or not to merge is what has made the world stop what they are doing and tune in to the merger-wolf cries of the day! MERGE and the world will watch and dissect your every move. DON'T MERGE and well we can all prediuct the outcome!

Time to take bets and let the odds get even. I believe that a merger will happen because if Parker fails yet again, he'll get hotter than the Arizona desert he currently resides in!

 

[1AA]

Parker is an Ass.

 

[SparrowHawk]

Parker is an Ass.

Thank you Master of the Obvious. Looks like his name will be on your paycheck soon enough.

 

[cynic]

This comment from the article sums up what I have been saying all along.

Robert W. Mann, an aviation consultant who once worked at American, believes that AMR will try to “run the clock” – avoid announcing a merger decision for as long as possible because rejecting US Airways’ overtures could trigger an immediate hostile takeover bid. If the economy and the airline industry grow stronger, a delay gives AMR more time to post better financial results and boost Horton’s argument that he’s already fixing the company, Mann says.

 

[crazystnic]

Parker said this from the beginning last summer... It would all be about the timing.
and that is what could kill the deal.