How can we get that Conoco company to cancel its billion-dollar deal to develop oilfields for Iran?

Together, they had ushered the national pastime into the age of the single-network, billion-dollar deal.

"That billion-dollar deal showed we'd helped create a monster we could no longer afford to feed."

The proposed merger follows a recent flurry of billion-dollar deals in banking.

But the outcome could change the markets far more - and far longer - than even the biggest billion-dollar deal.

At age 32, he has been put in a top position at Morgan Stanley, putting together billion-dollar deals.

And there are not many billion-dollar deals in play.

Rarely, in fact, despite all the color, does the public get much more than a glimpse of these billion-dollar deals.

Today, billion-dollar deals are far more common.

A roughly billion-dollar deal would have been ambitious even in a peacetime economy, but is especially impressive now.