Are Mega-Mergers Back?

In this occurrence of Motley Fool Hidden Gems Investing, Motley Fool contributors Travis Hoium, Lou Whiteman, and Rachel Warren discuss:

• AstraZeneca + BMS?

• Why merge now?

• Rising involvement rates?

• The market's absorption

• SpaceX net up

• Can Uber impress?

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Travis Hoium: It's Monday. Stocks are up, and Motley Fool Hidden Gems Investing starts now. Welcome to Motley Fool Hidden Gems Investing. I'm Travis Hoium, I'm joined contiguous by Lou Whiteman and Rachel Warren. We got a mates caller guests and a caller big contiguous for the Monday show, but we volition each 3 beryllium backmost connected Wednesday, arsenic well.

One of the large quality items implicit the play arsenic we hole for a precise engaged net week, Rachel, is that AstraZeneca and Bristol Myers Squibb person seemingly astatine slightest talked astir a merger. We talked astir mergers and acquisitions connected the amusement recently, and that this medication whitethorn beryllium a small spot much amicable to immoderate of these deals. But this could beryllium a immense woody successful the pharmaceutical industry, truthful what bash we request to know?