SPY - Wall Street Breakfast: Mammoth Merger On Tap As S&P Global Nears $44B Deal For IHS Markit

Listen on the go! A daily podcast of Wall Street Breakfast will be available by 8:00 a.m. on Seeking Alpha, iTunes, Stitcher and Spotify. Mammoth merger on tap as S&P Global nears $44B deal for IHS MarkitS&P Global (SPGI) is in advanced talks to acquire IHS Markit (INFO) for about $44B in a landmark deal that could be announced as soon as today, according to a WSJ report. Financial data has been a boom business over the past couple of decades, with S&P Global rising to an $82B market cap, and IHS Markit to $37B. S&P's acquisition of IHS Markit would be the largest of the year, topping Nvidia's (NVDA) ~$40B purchase of Arm Holdings and the ~$40B deal between Nippon Telegraph & Telephone ([[NPPXF]], [[NTTYY]]) and a subsidiary. Shopify sets records for its Black Friday sales, topping $2.4 billion Shopify (NYSE:SHOP) announced Saturday that Black Friday sales were up

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Wall Street Breakfast: Mammoth Merger On Tap As S&P Global Nears $44B Deal For IHS Markit