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Professor Robert Salomon identifies several causes for increased M&A activity over the past year

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Excerpt from The Atlantic -- "'Interest rates are at historic lows ... companies had lots of capital available to them to borrow to engage in deals,' says Robert Salomon, an associate professor of management at New York University’s Stern School of Business. 'The second factor that you can’t ignore is that corporate balance sheets have a lot more cash: The amount of cash on them [is] at an all-time high.'"

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