In addition, corporations often form or merge on that date.

And when corporations merge, or hint at such deals, share prices soar, feeding the great bull market.

Instead, Wall Street is expecting a return to normalcy: back to the days when corporations merged for strategic business reasons and not for quick financial gain.

As corporations merge, so do their ways of conducting business.

The corporations have not merged entirely, but they intend to share engineering, marketing, service, and distribution resources where possible to enhance their competitiveness against rival firms.

Like every office owner in that period, its tenant rolls shrank as corporations merged, moved and shed workers.

"If corporations can merge to make more money, why can't we?"

This section also discusses the way that corporations merge with one another in order to add to their ubiquity and provide greater control over their image.

Since the end of the 1980s, the corporation has merged and acquired much of its competition.

When corporations merge, certain things usually result: a snappy new name, a single person running the show, consolidated departments.