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Takeaways - The record level of M&A in 2021 was widely dispersed across industries and was driven by the strategic needs of companies to add technology and adapt to the...

Takeaways - Although deal flow continues to be strong, stricter antitrust and national security reviews may pose obstacles for some mergers. Financial sponsors remain...

second-place romney. after all that, heres where the candidates stand. cnn estimates romney now has 404 delegates of the 1,144 a nominee needs. santorum 16 a delegates, gingrich 106, ron paul still hasnt won a single primary or caucus, has. if not must wins, all three are seen as can-wins. between them, well, theyre campaigning today in all three states. president obama is on his way to charlotte, north carolina, where he will accept the democratic nomination six months from now, h...

Jobs and encourage production. so were focused on american oil production. we are doing all that we can in a safe, responsible way, to make sure that american oil production and gas production is high. but heres the thing. the amount of oil that we drill at home doesnt set the price of gas on its own. and the reason is is because oil is bought and sold on the world energy market. and just like last year, the biggest thing thats causing the price of oil to rise right now is instability in the mid...

Gas by itself. the oil market is global. oil is bought and sold until a world market. just like last year, the single biggest thing thats causes the price of oil to spike right now is instability in the middle east. this time aroundran when uncertainty increases, speculative trading on wall street increases. that drives prices up even more. those are the biggest short term factors at work here. over the long term, the biggest reason prices will probably keep going up is in places like china. the...

miguel marquez is joining us. what more can you tell us? >> reporter: it sounds like an accident. they were training late at night. it may have been a live fire exercise. it sounds like there was fairly intense training. these are two that provide close air support for marines on the ground. they were training for afghanistan, as you said. and they trained very, very hard at night and its possible that it was just an accident. the marines are saying that they collided in the air. obvio...