Richard Peterson
Richard Peterson
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This is the opposite of the perfect storm, the perfect calm that makes this a good time for M&A activity.
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The offer price is usually reserved for specialty clients and top brokers, ... There are starting to be some cracks in that barrier, but generally the average Jane or John will never (get access to the reserved inside price.)
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A lot of people think their vendors can solve this problem for them. We believe a vendor can provide a HIPAA-ready system, but only an organization can make it compliant. And it's not a one-time process like with Y2K. It's ongoing,
We've very excited, especially to do this two years in a row.
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Whether they're successful in that pursuit remains to be seen,
If (Rotary) wasn't doing this project, where would they end up? In the dump.
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With apologies to Frank Capra, it was a wonderful year for underwriting. There's no shortage of demand for money.
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If some of the troubled Dow components got into line, the Dow could go to 12,000.
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Those of us who track this are playing catch-up with the deals, trying to get the all the volume totals.
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We're a grassroots organization, which means the Minnesota Corn Growers is run from the bottom up. Individual farmers give us direction, but in order for that to happen we have to have a strong membership-strong in numbers and strong in feeling connected to the important work we're doing.
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We encourage all our dealers to satisfy their objectives and (create) a good relationship in the community.
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That whole sector got hit pretty hard and a lot of deal structures couldn't be effectively assembled.
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You could be approaching $80 billion in announced deals for this month.
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The catalyst for deals is generally rising corporate profits, ... We should have rising activity next year.