On the other hand, the pure acquisition activities take up large amounts of time.

This means there is enormous merger and acquisition activity.

But they do not look for much acquisition activity.

Unusually heavy daily merger and acquisition activity caught the market's attention yesterday.

This acquisition activity put it among the most active private equity firms through 3Q 2009.

Total financial transactions in sustainable energy, including acquisition activity, was $204 billion.

However, on average and across the most commonly studied variables, acquiring firms' financial performance does not positively change as a function of their acquisition activity.

"That issue is crucial to the future because acquisition activity only makes sense if supported by strong operating abilities."

A. First of all, with all the merger and acquisition activity, there are fewer of them around.

And some analysts believe that if investors see little acquisition activity because the asking prices are too high, the banks' stock prices could fall.