UK merger activity anticipated

Broker Peel Hunt believes that the current level of bidding activity means that the market is undervalued. It thinks that the potential vaccine means that bidders will take a longer-term view and assuming talks with the EU do result in a trade deal that will remove further uncertainty.

While AIM has outperformed most markets around the world, the Main Market has been a laggard. That means that fully listed companies are particularly attractive to overseas bidders. Nearly three-quarters of revenues generated by the constituents of the FTSE All Share index come from outside of the UK.

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