ECONOMIC INTERPENETRATION / (eu) mergers-acquisitions

- World: An annual report from KPMG CORPORATE FINANCE indicates that the total value of world crossborder merger and acquisition operations fell 52% in 2001, from $3,292 billion in 2000 to 1,595 billion last year. The study, which covers the first eleven months of the year, shows that the fall in transactions, begun early in the year, continued during the second half of 2001 despite a brief upturn in October, which was not confirmed the following month. John Griffith-Jones, who heads KPMG...