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Oliver "An Englishman in New York" Barnes is back at it.
It would appear the Czechs are employing the same tactics as the Americans with Chemring.
Bond markets may be causing some jitters among the worrywarts but let's not forget it's still a bull market for dealmaking and equity markets.
Today's announced deal in the London market is being done at a near 75pc premium.
I see SThree PLC has confirmed little old Betaville's RARE Alert about the takeover rumours published from earlier today.
Little old Betaville notes there have been some interesting developments around Xerox Holdings Corporation since this website published a RARE Alert about how a well known British activist investor has built a stake in the US-listed printing products and services company.
A new stake builder has taken a position in Craneware just after Richard the "Welsh Wizard" Griffiths increased his stake in the London-listed healthcare software business to 6pc.
The stake building in Craneware PLC by the former City stockbroker Richard Griffiths continues.
Little old Betaville couldn't help but notice that this plucky independent website was involved in breaking stories about two of the three recommended takeover offers that were announced to the London market this morning following the bank holiday weekend.
It might be a bank holiday in Britain but there is no let up in dealmaking in the US with several multi-billion dollar deals announced this morning.
Hacks at the venerable Wall Street Journal were working hard yesterday.
It would appear Stripe's $50 billion tilt at PayPal is all over now.
Do you recall last summer when little old Betaville ran a series of UNCOOKED Alerts about the takeover rumours surrounding Okta Inc?
Another month, another takeover tale about Qiagen from arch rivals at Bloomberg.
It's good to see the old Mark "The Kleinmanator" Kleinman from Sky News follow up little old Betaville's UNCOOKED Alert about how there are more bidders circling London-listed Gamma Communications.
Arch rivals at Bloomberg have followed up little old Betaville's UNCOOKED Alert about the rumours surrounding Virtu Financial Inc, the US-listed electronic market maker and brokerage.
After last week's strange story about the PayPal takeover negotiations hacks at the venerable Wall Street Journal are back on track with a genuine deal scoop about UGI Corporation.