VRT - M&A boosts Nielsen to #1 industrial gainer while trucking companies pile up losers' list

Nielsen was the top gainer on the back of its acquisition news while trucking companies made the decliners' list for the week ending April 1. The SPDR S&P 500 Trust ETF (SPY) +0.05% barely managed to be in the green for the third week in a row. YTD the ETF is -4.64%. Just over half of the 11 sectors of the S&P 500 saw gains for the week. But the Industrial Select Sector SPDR (XLI) -1.48% ended the week in the red after gaining for two weeks straight. YTD, XLI is -3.43%. The top five gainers in the industrial sector (stocks with a market cap of over $2B) all gained more than +10% each. Nielsen (NYSE:NLSN) +22.67%. The TV/Internet ratings company gained after it announced that it was being acquired by Elliott Management and Brookfield Asset Management for $16B including debt. Nielsen's stock maintained gains later in the week after it was reported that holder WindAcre appeared to have exited

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M&A boosts Nielsen to #1 industrial gainer, while trucking companies pile up losers' list