It was as if the solar got here out on Wall Avenue. Donald Trump’s election victory was met not simply with a blistering stockmarket rally, but additionally a flurry of dealmaking. Mondelez, a snack-seller, is reportedly attempting to purchase Hershey, a chocolatier. Consolidation beckons for the advertising industry. Bankers expect that many extra tie-ups will comply with. The surge in exercise partly displays a degree of certainty that will have materialised whoever received the election. Nevertheless it additionally has a lot to do with the altering of the guard at America’s antitrust authorities.
