Iran War Hits Dealmaking in Middle East, Asia -- Market Talk

Dow Jones03-25 22:00

1400 GMT - The conflict in Iran hurt dealmaking in the Middle East and Asia in the first quarter and casts a cloud over merger-and-acquisition activity for the rest of the year, Mergermarket says. The value of M&As in the Middle East, excluding Israel, fell to $2.8 billion in the first quarter to date, a tenth of the volume in the year-earlier period, in the slowest start to a year since 2016, according to Mergermarket. Dealmaking in Asia-Pacific also dropped 27% to $165.2 billion, hit by the fallout from the war, the data provider says. Elsewhere, M&A values climbed 32% in North America to $611.1 billion, and rose 48% to $334.7 billion in the Europe, Middle East and Africa region, according to Mergermarket. (adria.calatayud@wsj.com)

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