Monday, January 15, 2018

No. Apple and Amazon Aren't Going to Lead a Mega-Merger Boom in 2018

The combined jackpots of the Powerball and Mega Millions lotteries was recently near $1 billion, and it's always fun to imagine what you would do with the money if you won. Yet with odds of winning either one at more than 1 in 250 million, the chances of hitting the numbers are not in your favor.  But everyday folks dreaming of lottery-fueled filthy wealth aren't the only ones engaging in wishful thinking. Wall Street analysts are engaging in the same sort of fanciful thinking when they speculate that @Apple (NASDAQ: #AAPL) is about to buy @Netflix (NASDAQ: #NFLX), or that @Amazon.com (NASDAQ: #AMZN) will buy @Target (NYSE:TGT). You probably have a better chance of winning the lottery than either of these deals ever happening.

https://www.fool.com/investing/2018/01/14/will-apple-and-amazon-lead-a-mega-merger-boom-in-2.aspx

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