Welcome to the 2025 Wall Street Oscars.
Plus: M&A Goes Plus Sized and Vodacom builds in Africa
Plus: A $7 billion gold rush and Enhanced Games get a juiced-up valuation
Over $12 billion of M&A announced, including two deals north of 20x
Plus: A $12.8 billion shale merger and Bending Spoons revives AOL.
Plus: CMC acquires Foley's cements business for $1.8 billion and Ari Emanuel takes on Broadway.
Plus: Fifth Third Acquires Comerica for $10.9B and Paramount pays $150M for The Free Press.
Plus: EchoStar announces $17 billion spectrum sale to SpaceX, and TikTok nears sale of US assets.
Plus: KDP is back with a $23 billion deal and Gildan and Hanes merge.
Plus: Our Confession Corner
One league table to rule them all
M&A is so back.