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M&A Insights H1 2024: The Recovery Continues
Dealmakers remain cautious amid economic uncertainty, concerns about inflation and monetary policy, and regulatory and geopolitical headwinds.
Are dealmakers in the mood to engage in transactions?
BCG’s M&A Sentiment Index provides a monthly update on dealmakers' willingness to engage in mergers, acquisitions, and divestitures over roughly the next six months. Decision makers in corporations, private equity firms, and investment banks can use the index’s unique M&A insights to understand M&A market trends. The index’s interactive features allow decision makers to view sentiment globally and across individual regions and sectors. The sentiment value is derived through BCG’s proprietary methodology, reflecting our decades of M&A research and expertise, as well as through M&A insights from our data set of more than 900,000 deals. Our approach includes applying the latest advances in generative AI to analyze decision maker sentiment.
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